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Autumn-like

June 25, 2015September 5, 2017 adindragonsbloom 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word
  • 07.133 There was an autumn-like mist white upon the ground

OED gives us neither “autumn-like” nor “autumnlike”, so I will call this a JRRT original.  Now, it may not be original to him at all, but a word that he saw in someone else’s uncommon text.  We tag it thus to bring it into the light of examination.

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Audacious

June 25, 2015August 17, 2015 adindragonsbloom 10K, brief, word
  • 01.090 and audacious hobbit –
  • 01.090 at being called audacious
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Ash

June 25, 2015August 17, 2015 adindragonsbloom 10K, brief, word
  • 08.072 Ashes
  • 19.014 Hush! Hush! Oak, Ash, Thorn!
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Arrow-storm

June 25, 2015September 26, 2017 adindragonsbloom 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word
  • 14.014 straight through the arrow-storm,

A JRRT original word – it is not found in OED as one word, one hyphenated word, or as a two-word word (as “apple tart” is).

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Web-cutter

June 25, 2015September 22, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word
  • 12.052 the web-cutter,

This word does not appear in OED.

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Well-armed

June 25, 2015September 22, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, word
  • 06.062 and well-armed,
  • 15.021 for he has many people well-armed,

Hyphenated in OED.

“well-armed, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/227020. Accessed 21 September 2017.

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Armpits

June 25, 2015August 17, 2015 adindragonsbloom 10K, brief, word
  • 08.106 under his armpits,
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Well-behaved

June 25, 2015September 22, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, word
  • 08.144 and were reasonably well-behaved even to their worst enemies,

Hyphenated in OED.

“well-behaved, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/227049. Accessed 21 September 2017.

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Arm-chair

June 25, 2015September 5, 2017 adindragonsbloom 10K, hyphen, word
  • 18.054 in my own arm-chair!’ he said.

The hyphen is not present in OED variant spellings, but it is in the examples.

“armchair, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.

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Well-filled

June 25, 2015September 22, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, word
  • 09.062 of a well-filled larder.

Hyphenated in OED.

“well-filled, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/227260. Accessed 21 September 2017.

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