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Latest favorite words:
- busking
- sobriquet
- brobdingnagian
- permeating
- syllogism
- ephemera
- potemkin
- slake
- ochlocracy
Favorite words from the book The Meaning of Everything
(2003, Simon Winchester), about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary
under the editorship of James Murray and others. The page number where the word
appear is also given:
- appositely xxvii
- suxerainty 3
- runes 5
- elided 6
- simulacrum 10
- gallimaufry 16
- ensconced 17
- lexemes 18
- inchoate 19
- amanuenses 29
- tabula rosa 41
- perforce 40
- subsumed 53
- malapropism 56
- niggardly 58
- anodyne 59
- inveigh 59
- irascibility 67
- bellicosity 71
- of the first water 78
- teetotaller 79
- alacrity 79
- helpmeet 79
- fulsome 83
- oleaginous 84
- didactic 87
- cowed 87
- rebarbative 88
- jobbery 93
- appellative 95
- signally 96
- desuetude 99
- hessian 100
- bezoar 102
- lined with deal 104
- abeyance 107
- sagacious 115
- to grey itself 116
- machicolated 116
- pudicity 117
- at first blush 117
- orthoepy 123
- spluttered 127
- fulminated 127
- argumentation 132
- grandiloquent 135
- starveling 135
- fascicles 137
- piteously 138
- stakhanovite 140
- Friday car 141
- forfend 142
- madder 143
- aal root 143
- morindin 143
- afrete 145
- manfully 145
- bloater 147
- acatalectic 148
- agnate 148
- made redundant 149
- cavils 155
- perspicacity 155
- martinet 161
- penumbra 164
- punctilious 166
- otiose 166
- fastidious 166
- sojourner 167
- adumbrated 169
- bozzom 171
- by a long chalk 171
- dyspeptic 171
- pettifogging 172
- fillip 178
- waspishness 180
- parsimony 182
- hapless 185
- succour 189
- assiduous 191
- pleonastic 193
- ineluctable 196
- quire 197
- augured 217
- pettifogging 219
- colloquium 222
- catafalque 226
- prolixity 227
- pleurisy 229
- apposite 229
- poetasters 231
- hagiographical 235
- decussated 237
- reticulated 237
- admixture 236