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Although I can picture and feel clearly what is meant, this word is not found in OED.
Although I can picture and feel clearly what is meant, this word is not found in OED.
This word is not found in any form in OED.
Hyphenated in the examples.
“marketplace, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/114189. Accessed 19 September 2017.
“make-up, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/112664. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Only Gollum and Bilbo “lurk” – nothing in Mirkwood. I am startled.
the first, narrow meaning meant to recall a falcon to the hand by throwing its lure – its treat – out for it.
“lure, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 29 July 2015.
OED gives this as both hyphenated and not. I note that Tolkien hyphenated “breakfast-time”, “tea-time”, and “supper-time” but not “lunchtime”.
It’s a Germanic word, based on the idea of an unmeasured amount of something, haphazardly put together. Lumpe is a Norwegian and Swedish kind of cake, mentioned by the OED in the entry under “lump”. I’m not sure what to make of that – would any Word Fans care to post a recipe for lumpe?
“lump, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 29 July 2015.