- 02.009 “Thorin and Company to Burglar Bilbo greeting!
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Greenwood
- 18.044 Merry be the greenwood,
Greed
- 01.123 There was a most specially greedy,
- 12.017 but shifted into other dreams of greed
Grand-uncle
Of any generation! In fact, these two references are both to Bullroarer Took, once as Old Took’s g-g-uncle and once as Bilbo’s g-g-g-g-uncle. I have chosen to make these one entry, but let the debate rage on! Neither form, nor great-uncle, nor grand-uncle, appear in the Project Gutenberg 100K most common words.
“Grand-uncle” is apparently more common in Ireland than “great-uncle” which is elsewhere the more popular form.
- 01.094 even to Old Took’s great-grand-uncle Bullroarer,
- 01.097 I had a great-great-great-grand-uncle once,
“grand-uncle, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80718. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Gravy
- 02.043 and licking the gravy off their fingers.
Perhaps my favorite part of roasting a turkey.
Grassy-floored
- 11.014 grassy-floored, still and quiet.
Not found in OED.
Grass-land
- 07.010 to the grass-land beyond the stream.
Rarely hyphenated, but attested in OED.
“grass land | grassland, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80907. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Grass-green
- 03.007 and slashes of grass-green
Found in OED.
“grass-green, adj. (and n.).” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80900. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Grandson
This is a lovely example of the boundary between common and uncommon words – “grandson” is outside the Ten Thousand by both word frequency lists, but “grandfather” is within.
- 10.034 that it was Thror’s grandson
- 10.043 was really the grandson of the King under the Mountain,
Gram
- 01.094 He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram
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