[NFBV-Potomac-Announce] Vocabulary Light Between Oceans

[John Halverson]

Carl has kindly developed a set of vocabulary definitions for next month's book Light Between Oceans.

I have pasted it below and attached.

John

Chapter 1
P 10 stodge - someone stuffed full of food
P 13 toff - dandy, swell
P 15 quid - a pound sterling
Chapter 2
P 16 excoriated - skinned
P 18 lolling - hanging loosely
P 19 stoush - a fight or brawl
P 19 farrier - a person who shoes horses
P 24 thin as a yard of pump water
P 26 jarrah - a tall eucalyptus of western Australia
Chapter 3
P 31 scrimshaw
P 31 astragals - moldings
P 32 nous - common sense
P 34 humbugs - hard, usually mint flavored, candy
Chapter 4
P 36 skua - a seabird
P 36 skinks - lizards
P 36 bollard - a post of metal or wood on a wharf
Chapter 6
P 54 eiderdown - comforter
Chapter 7
P 60 plimsolls - sneakers
P 60 clobbers - clothes
Chapter 9
P 77 chuffed - exhausted?
Chapter 10
P 90 grist - grain
Chapter 11
P 101 prised - pried
Chapter 12
P 107 littlie
P 108 cochineal - a red dye
P 110 pig-face - ice plant
P 111 CLS - Concert Lighting Systems
P 111 effluction of time - passing of time
Chapter 14
P 120 dun - grayish yellow
P 126 coconut shy - game consists of throwing wooden balls at a row of coconuts balanced on posts
Chapter 15
P 129 mallee trees - shrubby Australian eucalypts
P 130 barney - fight
P 130 dicky heart
Chapter 16
P 145 dugite - a venomous, potentially lethal snake
Chapter 17
P 148 sulky - a light 2-wheeled vehicle having a seat for the driver only and usually no body
Chapter 18
P 164 splodgy - marked with splotches
P 165 Wisden - bible of cricket
Chapter 23
P 205 puce - dark red
Chapter 25
P 222 frangipani blossoms
P 223 a shingle short - silly, mad, eccentric
Chapter 26
P 239 She'd have the top brick off the chimney (expression) - people would be generous to her
Chapter 27
P 242 - spitting chips (expression)  - angry
Chapter 29
P 265 whingeing tone - whining
P 269 goannas - any of several large Australian monitor lizards
P 269 quokka - a stocky herbivorous marsupial
Chapter 35
P 316 tearaway - a rebellious and unruly or reckless young person
P 317 cove - man, fellow
P 317 cark -   ruin





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