Given that Hobbits are much smaller than adult men and women, I am amused that their beer-mugs are larger than a standard bottle of beer in my experience.
This is a two-word word in its OED headword, but hyphenated in some of the examples.
“beer, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Probably not the best place to hide as a dwarf who had gone to the cellar is most likely to be looking to fill the pitcher. “Beer-barrels” is a hyphenated word which is properly a two-words in the OED under “beer”, but hyphenated straightforwardly under “barrel”.
“beer, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 1 Juy 2015.
“barrel, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Mother’s twice-baked potatoes were done with butter, cheddar, milk, and a sprinkle of cayenne for color.
Hyphenated in OED.
“twice, adv. (n. and adj.).” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/208027. Accessed 21 September 2017.
As simple as apple slices wrapped in pastry, as complex as the exotic spices you might choose to add. I generally don’t add sugars to apple-based sweets and let the delicious fruit’s own sweetness shine. Can you tell I come from apple country? I hope you do, too!
Once again, OED does not list the hyphen in the spellings, but does have it in the samples from 1700s and 1800s. Now I’m hungry.
“apple, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
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These words do not properly concatenate with a hyphen, according to the good folks at OED. This is another Tolkien invention – so subtle as to never distract from the action, enough to remind us we are reading a translation.
Hyphenated in its mention in the OED.
“wine, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/229302. Accessed 21 September 2017.
It must take a great deal of planning to work in all of one’s Hobbit meals. If supper is some time after 8PM, I imagine that after-supper morsel would be what I call a bedtime snack.
Update 2017.09.05 – I was delightfully mistaken: after-supper is a proper name for a time of day, and OED says archaic. I am reminded of another very important time of day.
“after-supper, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Officially it’s just a mouthful, coming to english in the 13th century through French from the Latin root “to bite”.
“morsel, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 16 May 2015.
I have heard that the mutton from a mature but young sheep is tender and flavorful – but there’s a balance to be found between wool-production and tasty nutrition. Do you think the trolls were eating only old sheep?
Snail has now been promoted to a food word because of its nutritious value to the thrush.
While we don’t see forks or glasses return during good times, spoons do come back to us in the return to The Shire.
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