Words originating with Thomas Hardy
I'm teaching a Thomas Hardy class and read somewhere that Hardy was the originator of over 100 common English words in use today. However, I can only find a list of a few. Does anyone know where I can find more? I don't have access to the OED, nor does my college or town library. And I have spent much time searching google.
The OED has its first citation of the following words from Hardy. (That doesn't necessarily mean he coined them all)
- angle (= 'an act of angling')
- aquatinted
- ashlared
- asseveratingly
- back-along
- balconette
- challengeful
- cidery
- coquettishness
- crack-voiced
- dand
- datal
- declaim (n)
- deframe
- disillusive
- ditchless
- formularism
- fountain (v)
- gownless
- grintern
- grizzel (adv)
- hanker (n)
- hauling (adj)
- home-along
- hoosh (int)
- hurdler
- inanimately
- indemn (v)
- inheld
- intervolve (n)
- judge and jury (v)
- junctive
- larry
- lastage
- lection (v)
- loiter (n)
- maidy
- misadventurer
- miss-mark
- mumbudget
- nadiral
- necessitator
- off-licence
- ostracizer
- passager
- personalized
- perusing
- petite mort
- playward
- presciencelessness
- rafted ("disturbed, unsettled")
- rafting ("that rouses or stirs up")
- rum-strum (v)
- skitty-bats/skitty boots
- spatter (n "a spatterdash or gaiter")
- stale (n)
- strumming (adj)
- tardle (n)
- transfixture
- treadle (v)
- uncabined
- undergovernment
- unglamoured
- vigil (v)
- warden (v)
- waying (n)
- weedery (n: "mourning garments")
- whorage
- years-long
The article Thomas Hardy’s lexical landscape in the Oxford Dictionaries Blog notes quite a few, with links to their entries in the online edition of the OED (such as the entry for Wessex). You can apparently browse the definitions with requiring a subscription.
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