LITERARY
ADJECTIVES
► BOOKSY having literary or bookish pretensions → M20 colloq.
NOUNS
► GARBAGE ► GARBIDGE worthless or foul literary matter → 1592
► GARLAND a collection of short literary pieces, usually poems and ballads; an anthology, a miscellany → 1612
► LIT. CRIT. literary criticism → L19 sl.
► OPUSCLE a small work, esp. a literary or musical work of small size → 1658
► OPUSCULE a small work; esp. a literary or musical work of small size → 1656
► OPUSCULUM a small work; esp. a literary or musical work of small size → 1654
► POLYGRAPHY copious writing or literary work; writing dealing with many subjects → 1654
► REMAINS a posthumously published work; literary ‘remains’ → 1709 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BAS BLEU a ‘blue-stocking” a literary lady → 1801 obs.
► BOOKMAN an author or publisher; a literary man
► GARBLER one who garbles or mutilates literary works, statements. etc., one who perverts → a1693
► GHOST one who secretly does artistic or literary work for another person, the latter taking the credit → 1884
► LIT. ED.. a literary editor → L19 sl.
► PORCUS LITERARUM a literary glutton; one who devours books without regard to quality → 1881
► WOWSER a ‘blue-stocking’; an intellectual or literary woman→ 1959 Aust. sl.
VERBS
► QUILT to compile a literary work by putting together scraps from various sources → 1605
► SMELL OF THE LAMP of a literary composition: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study → 1579
► TASTE OF THE LAMP of a literary composition: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study → 1615 obs.
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