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Good-morning

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Hyphenated here because the phrase has been made into a verb!

  • 01.016 to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took’s son,

A perfectly robust OED entry, with instances beginning in 1802, and continuing through some very recent great literature:

1988   D. Adams Long Dark Tea-time of Soul (1991) vii. 76   The orderly arrived promptly in his well-pressed loose green tunic, good-morninged cheerfully, and bustled around locating bedroom slippers and dressing gown.

I should note that this line of the Hobbit is one of the OED examples of this word.

“good-morning, v.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/321166. Accessed 13 September 2017.

Good-bye

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Let’s not forget that in 1937, Bilbo also said “good-bye” to Gollum!

  • 04.003 although when they had said good-bye to Elrond
  • 07.094 and said good-bye to Elrond.
  • 07.145 Then at last they said good-bye to their ponies
  • 07.147 Good-bye!’
  • 07.147 And good-bye to you all,
  • 07.147 good-bye!
  • 07.152 Good-bye!
  • 07.153 Good-bye then,
  • 07.153 and really good-bye!’
  • 07.153 Good-bye!
  • 07.154 O good-bye
  • 18.038 for him to say good-bye to his friends.
  • 18.039 Good-bye

Attested in OED, and whether it means “God be with ye” or “God buy (redeem) ye” is unclear.

“goodbye, n., int., and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/79929. Accessed 13 September 2017.

Gold-plated

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  • 13.035 in a coat of gold-plated rings,

Although the nouns “gold-plate” and “gold-plating” are in OED, this word is not.  That seems very strange to me, so I double-checked.  “Plated” is a perfectly good adjective, and it seems that various combinations with the metal which is doing the plating does not make compound words, according to the OED editors.

“gold, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/79763. Accessed 13 September 2017.

“plated, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/145355. Accessed 13 September 2017.