Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Bermudaonion where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading.
Again I will use The Mayor of Casterbridge because its loaded with many interesting words.
1.Bill-hooks - hooked knives
2. mattock- tools used to loosen hard ground
3. butter-firkins- small casks for butter
4. field-flagons- bottles in which field workers carried beer
5. seed-lips- baskets used to carry seed
6. lammigers- Physically disabled people
7. tumuli- mounds of earth marking ancient burial sites
8. brougham- closed one-horse carriage
9. victorine- fur scarf worn by women
This book is full of new words and slang.
4 comments:
Those are interesting words. I'm wondering what time period they're from. Thanks for playing along today!
That was a nice collection of words, I didn't know any of them.
Here's my Wonderous Words Wednseday post.
Those are words I'd probably just skip over and not even look up. I call them "flavor" words. They spice up the story even if you don't know what they mean (and really, you don't have to know what they mean, unless they are part of a main plot point).
Bermuda onion I think they are from the late 1800s early 1900s
Lenore I like to learn different colloquialisms
Ladybug I will checkout your site
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