| HIGHBROWISM | • highbrowism n. Highbrow attitudes and policies generally. • HIGHBROWISM n. the state of being a highbrow. |
| MILLWRIGHTS | • millwrights n. Plural of millwright. • MILLWRIGHT n. a person whose occupation is planning and building mills or setting up their machinery. |
| MISAWARDING | • misawarding v. Present participle of misaward. • MISAWARD v. to award wrongly. |
| MISDRAWINGS | • misdrawings n. Plural of misdrawing. • MISDRAWING n. the act of misdrawing. |
| MISTHROWING | • misthrowing v. Present participle of misthrow. • MISTHROW v. to throw errantly. |
| MISWORDINGS | • miswordings n. Plural of miswording. • MISWORDING n. a wrong wording. |
| MOWBURNINGS | • MOWBURNING n. the fermenting of hay when housed too green. |
| NEWSMONGERS | • newsmongers n. Plural of newsmonger. • NEWSMONGER n. a person who deals in news; a gossip. |
| SHOWROOMING | • showrooming v. Present participle of showroom. • showrooming n. Gerund of showroom; inspecting merchandise in a physical store, then purchasing the identical product… • SHOWROOMING n. the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor. |
| SWINGOMETER | • swingometer n. (Britain) A graphic device used to illustrate swing in an election. • SWINGOMETER n. instrument for measuring swing in votes during an election. |
| TRANSMEWING | • transmewing v. Present participle of transmew. • TRANSMEW v. (Spenser) to transmute, change to another form or substance, also TRANSMOVE. |
| WHIGGAMORES | • Whiggamores n. Plural of Whiggamore. • WHIGGAMORE n. (Scots) a Whig; a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians. |
| WHIMPERINGS | • whimperings n. Plural of whimpering. • WHIMPERING n. the act of whimpering. |
| WORDMONGERS | • wordmongers n. Plural of wordmonger. • WORDMONGER n. a writer or speaker who uses language pretentiously or carelessly. |
| WRANGLESOME | • wranglesome adj. Characterised or marked by wrangling; inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome. • WRANGLESOME adj. quarrelsome. |