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  • United States, belonging to 1300 individuals. Steinbeck is most common among White (96.08%) individuals. John Steinbeck (1902–1968), American writer....
    461 bytes (43 words) - 18:39, 5 December 2022
  • From Steinbeck +‎ -ian. Steinbeckian (comparative more Steinbeckian, superlative most Steinbeckian) Of or pertaining to John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (1902–1968)...
    207 bytes (22 words) - 03:27, 19 August 2024
  • why'n't Alternative form of whyn't 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row: “Why’n’t Eddie bake a cake?” he suggested. “Eddie used to be fry cook at the San...
    268 bytes (30 words) - 12:59, 23 April 2023
  • glueyly, superlative most glueyly) Alternative form of gluily 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row: And now the cake was behaving very curiously, for while...
    332 bytes (49 words) - 22:34, 22 April 2023
  • boot +‎ -ery. bootery (plural booteries) A shop selling boots. 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row: When the final climax came with the front of Holman's...
    439 bytes (47 words) - 16:46, 2 May 2024
  • cradle (plural sea cradles) A chiton (kind of marine mollusc). 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row: All the articles of his trade were filed away on the coast...
    322 bytes (51 words) - 04:12, 23 April 2023
  • 'tard, -tard, and tárd tar'd Pronunciation spelling of tired. 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath‎[1], page 111: “Women's always tar'd,” said Tom...
    490 bytes (47 words) - 11:40, 30 June 2024
  • Company, […], →OCLC: Quickly, warningfully Buck Mulligan bent down 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row: “I guess everything that comes out of the human mouth...
    415 bytes (53 words) - 12:48, 23 April 2023
  • IITYWYBAD Initialism of if I tell you, will you buy another drink?. 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath‎[1], published 2014, page 160: The signs on cards...
    1 KB (138 words) - 09:24, 31 August 2023
  • bulldog. (US, slang) A tough, uncompromising person; a hardass. 1954, John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday, published 1960, page xxvi. 133: "They used to say,...
    438 bytes (53 words) - 02:22, 4 February 2024
  • lettuceless salad, the mixture was chopped up, and then divided. 1975, John Steinbeck, A Life in Letters: Poor little thing is so innocent and sweet. But...
    561 bytes (67 words) - 02:11, 19 August 2024
  • superlative most tearingly) With a tearing or ripping motion. 1933, John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown: The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the...
    572 bytes (62 words) - 01:24, 19 August 2024
  • for the merger or amalgamation of different things. 1951, John S. Kennedy, “John Steinbeck: Life Affirmed and Dissolved”, in Harold C. Gardiner, editor...
    1 KB (143 words) - 16:35, 18 June 2024
  • and beyond this what Chic Sale would call a "family one-holer". 1956, John Steinbeck, Jalopies I Have Cursed and Loved: A friend of mine had a Model T coupe...
    767 bytes (75 words) - 20:58, 20 August 2024
  • Literally, “in flower”. Compare French en fleur. in fiore in bloom 2013, John Steinbeck, translated by Sergio Claudio Perroni, Furore [The Grapes of Wrath]...
    629 bytes (70 words) - 06:14, 8 January 2023
  • Gene drank. As he set his glass down, he tried to push past us. 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row: Each of them got half a water-glass of the clear brown...
    654 bytes (83 words) - 02:02, 23 April 2023
  • Of or relating to the zoanthids (taxonomic order Zoanthidea). 1951, John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez: We found solitary and clustered zoanthidean...
    657 bytes (69 words) - 19:01, 3 December 2023
  • Renilla reniformis, a colonial cnidarian of the family Renillidae. 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row: All the articles of his trade were filed away on the coast...
    569 bytes (70 words) - 18:56, 6 March 2024
  • cat house (plural cat houses) Alternative spelling of cathouse 1937, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in Of Mice and Men: George shook himself. He said woodenly...
    638 bytes (98 words) - 13:44, 30 June 2024
  • toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes. 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 26, in The Grapes of Wrath‎[2], New York: Viking, published...
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