Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fresh from the forge; bright; brand-new.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Fresh from the
forge ;brand-new .
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Examples
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And while the French courts in England would cultivate no Shakespeare, or any other author who would add these and other fire-new terms to the language, there were whole populations of nameless creators of English who did: its speakers.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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See also business; English language: Early Modern English; future of; you; film; fire-new; penthouse; Renaissance shampoo, 28–34, 43n, 50, 238n, 256, 276
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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He would now witness thousands of fire-new terms flowing generously into the lexicon that he had augmented and renewed, and would probably recognize some kinships between the fast-growing English vocabulary of his world and of ours.xvii
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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And while the French courts in England would cultivate no Shakespeare, or any other author who would add these and other fire-new terms to the language, there were whole populations of nameless creators of English who did: its speakers.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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He would now witness thousands of fire-new terms flowing generously into the lexicon that he had augmented and renewed, and would probably recognize some kinships between the fast-growing English vocabulary of his world and of ours.xvii
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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See also business; English language: Early Modern English; future of; you; film; fire-new; penthouse; Renaissance shampoo, 28–34, 43n, 50, 238n, 256, 276
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The other is the fire-new phenomenon: terms minted from the existing word-hoard.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The other is the fire-new phenomenon: terms minted from the existing word-hoard.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness.
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But when she entered, she found a kitchen that might have been minted fire-new from the factory the moment before. v She stopped, stared, turned on her heel and nearly ran into Tony.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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