Zeppelined, adj.

zeppelined
http://www.oed.com/dictionary/zeppelined_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_use
First published 2014

# Zeppelinedadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective Zeppelined mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective Zeppelined. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### Where does the adjective Zeppelined come from?

Earliest known use

1910s

The earliest known use of the adjective Zeppelined is in the 1910s.

OED's earliest evidence for Zeppelined is from 1915, in New York Times.

### Nearby entries

1. zephyring, adj. 1821–
2. zephyrless, adj. a1821–
3. zephyr-like, adv. & adj. 1765–
4. zephyr lily, n.?1877–
5. zephyrous, adj. a1750–
6. zephyry, adj. 1791–
7. Zepp, n. 1914–
8. Zepp, v. 1914–
9. Zeppelin, n. 1896–
10. zeppelin, v. 1910–
11. Zeppelined, adj.1915–
12. Zeppelining, n. 1915–
13. Zeppelinist, n. 1912–
14. Zeppelinistic, adj. 1930–
15. Zeppelinite, n. 1909–
16. zeppole, n. 1835–
17. zepto-, comb. form
18. zeranol, n. 1971–
19. zerda, n. 1780–1860
20. zerk, n. 1926–
21. zero, n. & adj. 1604–

## Meaning & use

Now rare.

1. 1915–
   Subjected to bombing raids by Zeppelins; destroyed by a bomb dropped from a Zeppelin.
   Stressed as ˈZeppelined.
   1. 1915

      > The American popular novelist has..cheerfully hurled the missiles back at the habitation of the English popular novelist, who in his turn has made a noise like a Zeppelined conservatory.

      New York Times 14 November (Review Bks.) 443/1
   2. 1915

      > The inhabitants of much Zeppelined England.

      West Australian (Perth) 16 November 5/6
   3. 1918

      > It was some horrible woman who coveted a souvenir from the Zeppelined house.

      A. S. Swann, Englishwoman's Home 50

Originally published as part of the entry for zeppelin, v.

Zeppelined, adj. was first published in 2014.