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06-08-2007, 06:31 AM
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Hobbit
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Hobbit Vocabulary
I've recently re-read "The Hobbit" (it's one of my favorite books).
Every once in a while I came to a word that I did not know the meaning. Here is my list of words from "The Hobbit" that I did not know: Prosy - Dull; commonplace - arousing no interest, attention, curiosity or excitement. Porter - A dark beer resembling light stout, made from malt browned or charred by drying at a high temperature. Bewuthered - Appears to be a word unique to "The Hobbit". It's context would suggest it is synonymous with "Bewildered". Palpitating - To pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly. Flummoxed - Confused; Perplexed Bracken - Type of fern or an area overgrown with ferns and shrubs. Eyrie - The nest of a bird, such as an eagle, built on a cliff or other high place. Tuppence - A very small amount. Attercop - A type of spider or a peevish, ill-natured person. Tomnoddy - A fool or a dunce. Slowcoach - Someone who moves slowly; a "slowpoke" Turnkey - A person who has charge of the keys of a prison; jailer. Solemnities - State or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral. Mattocks - A digging tool with a flat blade set at right angles to the handle that can also be used as a weapon. |
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06-10-2007, 06:16 AM
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Elf Lord
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"tuppence" means 'two pence' (pennies) from the old British monetary system, replaced by the inelegant 'p', as in 'I need 2p'.
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12-06-2007, 06:47 PM
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Hobbit
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Location: montana
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hey, anybody know what 'Larks' means?
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12-07-2007, 09:55 AM
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Elf Lord
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b) capers, frolics- "when we were young we had such larks" c) an exclamation, being a euphemism for "Lord (God)" " Larks! You startled me."
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill |
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12-07-2007, 06:36 PM
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Hobbit
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Thanks GreyMouser!
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"oh look!! it's a plane...no, it's a bird... no...it's.... HOBBITS!!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!" --my BFF hobbit-hater 
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12-08-2007, 12:04 PM
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Elf Lord
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But for which one, and where in the Hobbit is it?
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill |
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12-08-2007, 07:30 PM
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Hobbit
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"oh look!! it's a plane...no, it's a bird... no...it's.... HOBBITS!!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!" --my BFF hobbit-hater
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