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Etymologies
- ash + plant (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Stephen carries an ashplant cane that becomes an ersatz version of Siegfried's sword: STEPHEN: AH NON, PAR EXEMPLE!”
“The ashplant brandishing is as much satire as mythmaking, but it points up the deeply Romantic underpinnings of Ulysses.”
“He began to beat the frayed end of his ashplant against the base of a pillar.”
“The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur.”
“He stood on the steps of the library to look at them, leaning wearily on his ashplant.”
“He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a grike.”
“By the bye have you the book, the thing, the ashplant?”
“Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed.”
“He walked on, waiting to be spoken to, trailing his ashplant by his side.”
“SACRIFIZIO INCRUENTO, Stephen said smiling, swaying his ashplant in slow swingswong from its midpoint, lightly. —”
Lists
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abasia, abask, abb, abba, abbatial, abra and 1214 more...
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joyce: compounds
a list of joyce's neologistic compounds from portrait of an artist as a young man, dubliners, and ulysses
moocow, oilsheet, fiveshilling, seventyseven, seventysix, studyhall, hearthrug, wellread, playroom, copybook, breadbasket, dwellingplace and 232 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
refectory, soutane, ha-ha, jewelly, girt, centenary, collywobbles, coadjutor, catafalque, beeftea, pierhead, bedad and 235 more...
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Ulysses
omphalos, inwit, junket, ashplant, ferrule, beldam, leman, gamp, omophorion, dun, coign of vantage, moiety and 13 more...
Tweets
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qroqqa Well well, three Wordies already listing this as a specifically Joycean word. I just noticed it in Portrait. A stick made of ash, used as either a walking-stick or a cudgel. The oddity is of course 'plant' in this sense.
It turns out however that this is close to the etymological sense of 'plant', which was a sapling, seedling, shoot etc., before being generalized to vegetation of any size or age. The OED says this is now specifically Irish and largely confined to 'ash-plant'. Jul 9, 2009