- 03.023 “Thank you!” said Thorin a bit gruffly;
- 07.036 and what do you want?’ he asked gruffly,
- 07.042 Goblins?’ said the big man less gruffly.
Author: lfsaldenbirch
Gruesome
OED says that this use of “gruesome” is literary and dialectical, so I am adding the “archaic” tag. To “grue” is to shudder or feel such horror that you shudder – a northern, Scottish, dialectical verb.
- 03.031 and even gruesome,
“grue, v.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.
“gruesome, adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.
Grudge
- 04.025 But they had a special grudge against Thorin’s people,
Grubb
- 19.036 Messrs Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes
- 19.036 Messrs Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes
Grown-up
- 08.092 and even grown-up he had still spent a deal of his time at quoits,
A proper compound word.
“grown-up, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/81922. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Growl
How odd that growling disappears completely after chapter 9 – in fact, mostly is done with after Chapter 7.
- 04.012 and the thunder still growling,
- 04.036 howls, growls and curses;
- 06.064 listening to their growling
- 07.023 and I heard him growl
- 07.038 growled the man.
- 07.062 growled Beorn.
- 07.074 Good!’ growled Beorn.
- 07.082 and he growled,
- 07.085 growled Beorn.
- 07.107 There was a growling sound outside,
- 07.120 and growling as before.
- 07.152 growled Thorin.
- 09.047 growled the butler.
Grope
- 05.002 and groped about on all fours,
- 05.105 as it quietly slipped on to his groping forefinger.
- 10.019 and groping for weapons.
- 13.002 and groped back to where the door had been.
Grocer
Update 2016.09.29: I’m making my “find the food words!” pass through the text and clearly this qualifies.
- 01.095 He looks more like a grocer than a burglar!’
- 12.017 More like a grocer than a burglar’ indeed!
Grind
- 05.055 Grinds hard stones to meal;
Greybeard
“Greybeards and gammers” mean old men and women. In another context, “gaffers and gammers” mean grandfathers and grandmothers. Greybeards here are tellers of old tales, but the word does not seem to carry the connotation beyond this passage of gossips as “gammers” does.
- 10.018 and laughed at the greybeards
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