- 05.053 No-legs lay on one-leg,
This word, with hyphen, space, or none, is not found in OED.
Author: lfsaldenbirch
Old-looking
- 01.031 Instead there was a very old-looking dwarf
This hyphenated word has the hyphen even in the OED.
“old, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/130955. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Old-fashioned
- 17.033 and rather old-fashioned language of such occasions,
This one is hyphenated it its main OED entry.
“old-fashioned, adj. (and adv.) and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/130973. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Oak-wood
Note that this is not the wood of an oak, but a woods of oak trees. this concept has its own entry in OED, but it is always two words with a space or one single word, never hyphenated. I am giving this spelling the JRRT tag.
- 07.023 in an oak-wood
- 08.042 a butterfly that loves the tops of oak-woods,
“oak, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/129461. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Oak-trunk
- 07.034 in the middle there was lying a great oak-trunk
This concept, not just a trunk modified by the type of tree, has its own OED sub-entry which is spelled both with and without hyphens.
“oak, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/129461. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Now-a-days
- 01.122 in the world now-a-days.
- 01.123 than the far edge of the Long Lake now-a-days.
This one OED says is usually written as one word nowadays, but previously had either spaces or hyphens.
“nowadays, adv., n., and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/128828. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Note-paper
- 02.007 on his own note-paper).
This OED attested word is both hyphenated and one-word in the various examples.
“notepaper, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/128560. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Nosebag
“Nose”, of German extraction, was pronounced more like “nese”, which is now considered a Scottish word.
- 04.013 in their nosebags.
“nese, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 29 July 2015.
“nose, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 29 July 2015.
North-west
The ordinal compass points are properly hyphenated.
- 07.130 and then bore to the north-west.
- 11.003 They made north-west,
Noble-hearted
- 06.068 and noble-hearted.
This sub-entry is not entered in OED without the hyphen!
“noble, adj. and n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/127485. Accessed 19 September 2017.
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