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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
[edit]- abutment
- advisee
- alongside
- altarpiece
- amputee
- an arm and a leg
- athleticism
- ball peen hammer
- beachfront
- bedspring
- beetleskin
- believeth
- birdshit
- black angus
- black ice
- bloodless
- blowgun
- boarder
- boathouse
- bobble
- bracing
- bread box
- bucket brigade
- candlelit
- chinchilla
- choirmaster
- Christmasy
- citybound
- Classicist
- clerical collar
- clockface
- common cold
- condemnatory
- contra – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 306
- costar
- counselee
- countinghouse
- crèche
- daredevil
- day boy
- derrickman
- dirgeful
- displeasure
- dogsledding
- drawing room
- earflap
- Epiphany
- eyeliner
- farfetched
- farmhouse
- finagle
- finger painting
- flub
- flying buttress
- footbridge
- forepaw
- fraught
- fretfully
- fruitcake – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 262
- fuddy-duddy
- full-tilt
- fussbudget
- go-getter
- goosed
- hanky-panky
- hardwood
- hatbox
- hatless
- headless
- heartfelt
- heavyset
- henceforward
- high chair
- homesickness
- housemother
- hymnal
- in a state
- in one’s cups
- in spite of
- inexorable
- interdemoninational
- Ivy League
- jump shot
- killdeer
- knee socks
- know-it-all
- laundry chute
- leg-warmer
- lengthwise
- linemen
- litanic
- liveth
- long-winded
- loquacity
- lose count
- loved one
- lumberjack
- lumberyard
- master key
- Maundy Thursday
- middie
- middle ground
- mill around
- mistook
- mountaintop
- murderous
- narthex
- Nicene Creed
- nondenominational
- nonlubricated
- nonspecific
- nubbin
- nursing bra
- oafish
- old school – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 296
- onstage
- orchestrate
- outdoorsman
- overlarge
- overtired
- palaver
- panicked
- parishioner
- pass-and-catch
- pep talk
- peppermill
- pinkeye
- powerboat
- preadolescent
- presexual
- protrusive
- provincialism
- railroad tie
- rawhide
- recessional
- red-letter day
- reform school
- remindful
- Rev.
- rite of passage
- role model
- roofline
- roughneck
- running board
- saith
- saltbox
- savagery
- sawyer
- scatter rug
- Scotch tape
- scot-free
- sea wall
- shooed
- shopworn
- short stop
- sidesmen
- signalman
- slam-dunk – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 303
- sleep in
- small hours
- snowshoe
- sodden
- speech impediment
- spiral pass
- stableman
- stage fright
- stage mother
- stairwell
- staple gun
- stonecutter
- stonecutter
- storm door
- stuporous
- supplicant
- swaddling clothes
- swamplife
- take for granted
- testy
- theatergoing
- throwback
- toddy
- tongue-tied
- topcoat
- trestle bridge
- trestlework
- tripartite
- triptych
- troublemaker
- trouper
- turkey vulture
- turtledove
- undaring
- underbelly
- unloved
- unmuddied
- unsubtle
- unthinking
- upthrust
- varsity
- waders
- water-ski
- widow’s peak
- workmanship
- worshipful
- would-be
- yuletide
- Zürich – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 305