10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERNACULAR»
Discover the use of
supernacular in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
supernacular and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
supernacular . (Of liquor) excellent: 1848, Thackeray; ob. Ex: supernaculum . A
liquor to be drained to the last drop; excellent liquor; excellent anything: C.17–20;
ob. W.King, 1704, 'Theirjests were Supernaculum': Grose, 1st ed. ('Good liquor').
Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, 1973
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
Herbert, 1976, writing of the 1900s): Winchester. supernacular. (Of liquor)
excellent: 1848 (Thackeray: OED); ob. Ex: supernaculurn. A liquor to be drained
to the last drop; excellent liquor; excellent anything; from ca. 1640 (see TAVERN
...
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, 1984
3
There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent ...
Supernaculum came to be used in a general sense to mean good liquor, and
there is even an adjective, supernacular, that I'm surprised Madison Avenue hasn
't revived. Can't you imagine a bunch of obese ex-football players, in one of those
...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2005
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The New York Times Book Review
The thought came to me as I started Eric Linklater'a "Position at Noon" (recently
published in England) and came across within the first few pages such words as
flocculence, desquamating, supernacular and furi- bund. Actually the context ...
I perfectly well recollect that the claretat Hawbuck's was notby anymeans so
goodasthat of Hipsley's, while,on the contrary, some white hermitage attheHaws (
by theway,the butler only gave me half a glasseach time) was supernacular.
William Makepeace Thackeray, 2014
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Book of Snobs, by One of Themselves
the claret at Hawbuck's was not by any means so good as that of Hipsley's, while,
on the contrary, some white hermitage at the Haws (by the way, the butler only
gave me half a glass each time) was supernacular. And I remember the ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 2006
As I have not mentioned, the three "supernacular" ports of '70, '72, '73 (p. 70)
were, I believe, all of their shipping, and the only relic of my ancient cellar (stored
in safe custody, I hope, but when to be drunk I know not) is a jeroboam of their '81
, ...
George Saintsbury, Thomas Pinney, 2008
I LETTER I. What a light-hearted fellow art thou, Augustus, and in what a tone of
supernacular gaiety you write! How can you trifle so? To consult me about the
feasibility of making a true Turkish pelisse take in Bond-street? and about ? But,
fie ...
Constantine Henry Phipps Normanby (Marquess of), 1829
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z ...
Supermedial, sūpėrmē′dial, adj. being above the middle. Supermundane,
sūpėrmun′dān, adj.above the world. Supernacular, sūpėrnak′ūlar, adj.very
choice, of liquor. —n.Supernac′ūlum,wine fittobedrunkto the lastdrop with no
heeltaps, ...
10
The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists
I perfectly well recollect that the claret at Hawbuck's was not by any means so
good as that of Hipsley's, while, on the contrary, some white hermitage at the
Haws (by the way, the butler only gave me half a glass each time) was
supernacular.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden, 2005
