- 05.055 Grinds hard stones to meal;
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Greybeard
“Greybeards and gammers” mean old men and women. In another context, “gaffers and gammers” mean grandfathers and grandmothers. Greybeards here are tellers of old tales, but the word does not seem to carry the connotation beyond this passage of gossips as “gammers” does.
- 10.018 and laughed at the greybeards
Greeting
- 02.009 “Thorin and Company to Burglar Bilbo greeting!
Greenwood
- 18.044 Merry be the greenwood,
Greed
- 01.123 There was a most specially greedy,
- 12.017 but shifted into other dreams of greed
Grand-uncle
Of any generation! In fact, these two references are both to Bullroarer Took, once as Old Took’s g-g-uncle and once as Bilbo’s g-g-g-g-uncle. I have chosen to make these one entry, but let the debate rage on! Neither form, nor great-uncle, nor grand-uncle, appear in the Project Gutenberg 100K most common words.
“Grand-uncle” is apparently more common in Ireland than “great-uncle” which is elsewhere the more popular form.
- 01.094 even to Old Took’s great-grand-uncle Bullroarer,
- 01.097 I had a great-great-great-grand-uncle once,
“grand-uncle, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80718. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Gravy
- 02.043 and licking the gravy off their fingers.
Perhaps my favorite part of roasting a turkey.
Grassy-floored
- 11.014 grassy-floored, still and quiet.
Not found in OED.
Grass-land
- 07.010 to the grass-land beyond the stream.
Rarely hyphenated, but attested in OED.
“grass land | grassland, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80907. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Grass-green
- 03.007 and slashes of grass-green
Found in OED.
“grass-green, adj. (and n.).” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80900. Accessed 13 September 2017.
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