This word . has it’s own sub-entry in OED under “long”.
“long, adj.1 and n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/109975. Accessed 15 September 2017.
This word has its own proper sub-entry under “long” in the OED.
“long, adj.1 and n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/109975. Accessed 15 September 2017.
Obviously it’s a JRRT creation as a place name – but as a descriptive, it’s also not in the OED.
Shout-out for a rather biblical image. We don’t see any real locusts in the secondary world of Middle Earth, and I wonder if they exist unmentioned and Bilbo (the diarist) used this simile or if the word was chosen by the translator (Tolkien).
The entire realm of possibilities of dragon-insults springs to mind. This is exactly what young dragons would call one another.
Hyphenated compound in the OED.
“little, adj., pron., and n., and adv.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/109250. Accessed 15 September 2017.
words that you were saying 