(1) Bawbag, which was submitted for the dictionary by the user tooz last month, was one of several new entries to the open dictionary, along with the “informal verb” to pother, defined as “to make an unnecessary fuss”, and the expression “curiouser and curiouser”.
(2) Charlotte, standing calm and still in the middle of all the flap and pother – the Bennets should award her a special stipend just for advising Elizabeth not to be so bloody rude to Darcy every time she speaks to him (I paraphrase) – and gazing with a cool, appraising eye on her own and everyone else's best chance of the greatest happiness while everyone else's vision is either blinkered with pride, blurred by prejudice or occluded by simple stupidity (Lydia!
Rother
Definition:
(a.) Bovine.
(n.) A bovine beast.
(n.) A rudder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Panellist Kevin Barron, MP for Rother Valley, who was the chair of the health select committee in 2005-10, said that to save money we sometimes need to look beyond the NHS for smoking-cessation solutions.
(2) In Rotherham, Rother Valley, Dudley North, Plymouth Moor View and Penistone and Stocksbridge, the speed of Ukip's advance, coupled with evidence of a broader decline in blue-collar support for Labour, led the Fabians to talk of a " considerable vulnerability to Ukip ".
(3) This outbreak raises the concern of Rother outbreaks of cholera occuring on remote and poorly equipped Pacific islands where the environmental circumstances are conducive to cholera spread.
(4) Wolverhampton (19 days), north Norfolk and Sheffield (both 20 days) and Hastings and Rother in Kent (21) were the next fastest for giving patients the procedure.
(5) C3 nephritic factor (NEF), an IgG autoantibody to the alternative pathway C3 convertase, is usually measured by crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CI) but recently a reliable haemolytic assay (HA) was described by Rother (1982).
(6) But while the rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent are at low or very low levels for the time of year, the Environment Agency said public water supplies were unlikely to be affected in the region.
(7) The high court in London ordered Jane Collins to pay £54,000 each to Sarah Champion, Kevin Barron and John Healey, the MPs for Rotherham, Rother Valley, and Wentworth and Dearne respectively.
(8) At the table Dave Brindle (Chair) Public services editor, the Guardian Kevin Barron MP for Rother Valley and former chair of the health select committee (2005-10) Steve Bedser Cabinet member, health and wellbeing, Birmingham city council Shirley Cramer Chief executive, Royal Society of Public Health Paula Chadwick Chief executive, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation Eugene Milne Director, adult health and wellbeing, Public Health England Credits Seminar report commissioned and controlled by the Guardian.
(9) Young men have their hair specially heseltined for their first speech at a Tory conference … One young man who had obviously had his hair heseltined for the day was a 16-year-old from the Rother valley called William Hague.
(10) Speaking to Sky News in January last year, Caven Vines, the former leader of Ukip on Rotherham council, claimed that the MP for Wentworth and Dearne, John Healey, and the MP for Rother Valley, Sir Kevin Barron, “knew what was going on”.
(11) It seems likely a scene-stealing turn as a vowel-mangling western star in the Coen rothers’ new period romp Hail, Caesar!