The Cognātarium: Appendix I
Words Derived from Literary Works
| Word | Work | Author |
|---|---|---|
| amaryllis | Various classical pastoral poems | |
| Brobdingnagian | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| chortle | Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| fedora | Fédora | Victorien Sardou |
| galumph | Jabberwocky | Lewis Carroll |
| gamp | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens |
| gargantuan | Gargantua and Pantagruel | François Rabelais |
| hawkshaw | The Ticket-of-Leave Man | Tom Taylor |
| Lilliputian | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Lorna | Lorna Doone | R. D. Blackmore |
| lothario | The Fair Penitent | Nicholas Rowe |
| lotus eater | The Odyssey | Homer |
| malapropism | The Rivals | Richard B. Sheridan |
| mentor | The Iliad/The Odyssey | Homer |
| micawber | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| milquetoast | The Timid Soul | Harold T. Webster |
| muckrake | Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan |
| odyssey | The Iliad/The Odyssey | Homer |
| Pamela | Arcadia | Sir Philip Sidney |
| pamphlet | Pamphilus, seu de Amore | (12th-c. Latin poem) |
| pandemonium | Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| pander | Troilus and Cressida | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Pollyanna | Pollyanna | Eleanor Porter |
| pooh-bah | The Mikado | Gilbert & Sullivan |
| quark | Finnegans Wake | James Joyce |
| quixotic | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| ragamuffin | Piers Plowman | William Langland |
| robot | R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) | Karel Capek |
| rodomontade | Orlando Furioso | Lodovico Ariosto |
| runcible spoon | The Owl and the Pussycat | Edward Lear |
| scrooge | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| serendipity | The Three Princes of Serendip | (Persian fairy tale) |
| shangri-la | Lost Horizon | James Hilton |
| shylock | The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
| simon-pure | A Bold Stroke for a Wife | Susanna Centlivre |
| tam-o’-shanter | Tam o’Shanter | Robert Burns |
| utopia | Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| Vanessa | Cadenus and Vanessa | Jonathan Swift |
| Wendy | Peter Pan | James M. Barrie |
| yahoo | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
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