normaller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: normaler
Senses: examples: text: Family Doctor. “Well, my little Man, and how are you this Morning?” Young Hopeful. “Oh, Nursey says I ’m ever so much Normaller to-day!”
ref: 1892 August 6, “A Satisfactory Patient”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CIII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 57, column 1:
text: A diploma in the waiting room revealed Big Boy to be a member of The American Association of Medical Hydrology, whatever that might be. Furthermore he was a deacon of the Royal Aryan Society for Positive Christianity and as such was privileged to throw in divine healing without extra charge. That went right along with the three-dollar treatment for a touch of the astral power and a short lecture on the latent powers possessed by all of us. “Pow-wers what vassly transent our normaller ones,” was just how Big Boy put it.
ref: 1949 November, Nelson Algren, “Rumors of Evening”, in The Man with the Golden Arm: A Novel, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 77:
text: And in a normaller company it would be the wardrobe room, too, but costumery is my infantile name for it and the actors go along with my little whims.
ref: 1963, Fritz Leiber, “No Great Magic”, in Galaxy Magazine, volume 22, New York, N.Y.: Galaxy Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 156, column 1:
text: ONCE I THOUGHT YOU WERE WEIRD; BUT SOON MY DOUBTS DISAPPEARED. I THINK YOU’RE NORMALLER THAN THEY.
ref: 1997, Laurence O’Keefe, “Inside Your Heart”, in Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming, Laurence O’Keefe, Bat Boy: The Musical, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 2002, →ISBN, act 2, scene 5, page 77:
ref: 1999, Michael Warner, “Normal and Normaller: Beyond Gay Marriage”, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 5, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119
text: Oddworld Inhabitants, partly because it’s a nice pun, wants you to believe that Oddworld Just Got Stranger. It’s a valid gag, since Stranger’s titular hero is a departure for the series: mean, graceful and self-assured. But it’s also a bit of a con because, in many ways, Oddworld just got normaller. Stranger takes the series into the realms of far more conventional gameplay, namely a thirdperson/firstperson adventure with guns, puzzles and fistfights.
ref: 2004 October, “Oddworld Stranger”, in Dan Toose, editor, Edge Australia, Bondi Junction, N.S.W.: Derwent Howard, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 1:
text: So why can’t I ever get what I want, like a power structure that’s faults & fissures are not so glaringly obvious as to mock our imagined non-plussedness during normaller, Clintonian times
ref: 2009 May, David Buuck, “Ruts”, in The Shunt, Long Beach, Calif.: Palm Press, →ISBN, page 67:
text: But I’m not one of these people who feels the need to hog every conversation or jump up on stage at the drop of a karaoke microphone. I’m just a normal fella, I reckon. Perhaps even normaller than most, if that makes sense or is an actual word. I’m certainly shyer. I don’t know.
ref: 2009 June 4, Danny King, “Lofty reactions”, in Blue Collar, London: Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 273:
text: “I’m thankful for this beautiful morning!” He points toward the sky. “See that sunrise? Smell that air—” / “That’s stink from the rendering plant.” / “Someone’s having a bad day.” He grins. “Shame too. Such a glorious—” / “Stop it! You don’t have … issues. Well, maybe an ongoing odor problem, but besides that, no issues. I, on the other hand, might look normal—” / “Whatever. I look normaller than you.” I hold up a hand and rub my knuckles. “But you, at least, might live to get arthritis.”
ref: 2011, Jonathan Friesen, chapter 6, in The Last Martin, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zonderkidz, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: comparative form of normal: more normal