- 04.033 but the goblins called it simply Biter.
- 04.041 and hated it worse than Biter if possible.
- 04.048 “Biter and Beater!” they shrieked;
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Birthday-present
In the 1937 edition of The Hobbit, this word phrase does not appear.
In the OED, it has a compound word entry “birthday present” with an example of “birth-day present”, but in no case hyphenated as JRRT uses it here.
- 05.085 My birthday-present!’
- 05.087 My birthday-present!
- 05.109 My birthday-present.’
- 05.111 My birthday-present!
“birthday, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Bird-speech
- 15.014 and not bird-speech)
It is not found as a compound form under “speech” – nor is any similar, like “whale speech” or “French speech”, so the meaning as “language of the birds” is JRRT original (or the similarly obscure invention of another, but raised into notice by JRRT).
Bird-nesting
The occupation of searching for birds’ nests. It is hyphenated thus in OED.
[06.076] ‘Go away! little boys!’ shouted Gandalf in answer. ‘It isn’t bird-nesting time.
- 06.076 It isn’t bird-nesting time.
“ˈbird’s-ˌnesting | bird-nesting, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Bicker
- 02.107 that had kept the trolls bickering
- 10.003 and of the bickerings of the Lake-men
Benefactor
- 14.033 in the roll of the benefactors of our town;
Tree-top
- 06.082 Other birds flew to the tree-tops
- 19.011 The wind’s in the tree-top, the wind’s in the heather;
Hyphenated or two words will do for OED.
“ˈtree-top | tree top, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/205437. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Belly
- 12.014 and his long pale belly crusted with gems
- 14.023 his belly glittered white with sparkling fires of gems
Bellow
- 05.142 bellowed the captain.
- 12.019 of a bellowing
Tree-trunk
- 02.040 through the tree-trunks not far ahead.
- 02.079 it was thick as a young tree-trunk –
- 06.072 and brushwood round the tree-trunks.
- 07.045 propped on wooden posts made of single tree-trunks.
- 08.003 and scuttling behind tree-trunks.
- 08.109 of the branch nearest the tree-trunk
Hyphenated in its sub-entry in OED.
“tree, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/205416. Accessed 21 September 2017.
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