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Pick up that cross.
Move those crosses here.
He was very cross.
He said it very crossly.
She was even crosser.
He was the crossest.
Why did he cross the road?
When she crosses.
Is he crossing?
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  • town in Addison County, Vermont. An English surname (George Orwell took his name from the River Orwell). In addition to the construction Orwellian, it is...
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  • goodthink (category English terms coined by George Orwell)
    has an article on: goodthink Wikipedia From good +‎ think, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. goodthink (uncountable) An...
    399 bytes (35 words) - 12:28, 27 September 2024
  • Oldspeak (category English terms coined by George Orwell)
    From old +‎ speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Oldspeak (fiction) Synonym of Standard English Oldspeak (usually...
    401 bytes (32 words) - 04:02, 28 September 2024
  • crimethink (category English terms coined by George Orwell)
    article on: crimethink Wikipedia Compound of crime +‎ think, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. crimethink (uncountable)...
    488 bytes (63 words) - 10:39, 27 September 2024
  • English language “Homage to Catalonia” van George Orwell is een Engelstalig boek. “Homage to Catalonia” by George Orwell is a book [written] in English....
    631 bytes (58 words) - 23:30, 19 September 2024
  • more equal (category English terms coined by George Orwell)
    Coined by George Orwell in 1945; see Animal Farm quotation below. more equal (comparative form only) (idiomatic, ironic) Ostensibly equal, but more privileged...
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  • quislingised) Alternative form of quislingize 2016, George Orwell, Peter Davison, George Orwell: A Life in Letters: Martin of course is far too dishonest...
    497 bytes (87 words) - 05:45, 20 August 2023
  • Calque of English doublethink, coined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. dubbeltänk n (uncountable) doublethink...
    282 bytes (16 words) - 20:17, 6 May 2024
  • nation of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). 1993, Stephen Ingle, “Orwellian socialism today”, in George Orwell: A Political Life...
    5 KB (446 words) - 09:41, 26 October 2024
  • facecrime (category English terms coined by George Orwell)
    From face +‎ crime. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to the act of having a...
    1 KB (151 words) - 03:36, 28 September 2024
  • duckspeak (category English terms coined by George Orwell)
    From duck +‎ speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. duckspeak (uncountable) Thoughtless or...
    2 KB (151 words) - 12:35, 27 September 2024
  • Translated version of English Newspeak, coined by George Orwell in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-four. novilíngua f (uncountable) Newspeak (fictional...
    260 bytes (26 words) - 23:15, 9 October 2022
  • prolefeed (category English terms coined by George Orwell)
    From prole +‎ feed, coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. prolefeed (uncountable) Worthless entertainment and propaganda designed...
    2 KB (176 words) - 03:43, 28 September 2024
  • baking hot (not comparable) extremely hot 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published 1954, II. v., page 121: The weather was baking hot. baking...
    321 bytes (26 words) - 04:35, 28 September 2024
  • mustachio +‎ -'d. moustachio'd Alternative form of moustachioed 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 6: The black-moustachio’d face gazed down...
    383 bytes (30 words) - 02:32, 19 August 2024
  • From Oldspeak, a word coined by George Orwell. Equivalent to old +‎ speak. oldspeak (usually uncountable, plural oldspeaks) Standard English, not newspeak...
    265 bytes (21 words) - 04:02, 28 September 2024
  • enthusiasms plural of enthusiasm 1948, George Orwell, 1984, page 21: Parsons was Winston's fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish...
    315 bytes (35 words) - 12:39, 31 August 2023
  • braininess (uncountable) The characteristic of being brainy. 1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days‎[1]: […] any excess of intellect—'braininess'...
    459 bytes (39 words) - 00:10, 19 August 2024
  • (comparative more tallowy, superlative most tallowy) Resembling tallow. 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days: The sweat gleamed on his large, tallowy breasts. tollway...
    343 bytes (32 words) - 11:51, 31 August 2023
  • Newspeak (category English terms coined by George Orwell)
    George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The programming language was so named because of its “shrinkable” design, following Orwell's...
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