Brave New World Vocab

A.F. Huxley's term, following all the dates in the modern era ("After Ford").

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon the names of the castes of the dystopia. They are the first five letters of the Greek alphabet, used most commonly in British schools and universities as grades, equivalent to A, B, C, D, and F.

Bokanovsky's Process Huxley's phrase. A method for producing many identical eggs from a single egg. It is the basis for producing identical human beings.

caffeine solution Huxley's phrase for a tea-like drink in the brave new world.

Cyprus Experiment- the creation of a society made up only of Alphas

Falkland Islands a small group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of South America. Here, the place of Bernard's and Helmholtz's banishment.

flivver a small, cheap automobile, especially an old one. Here, used respectfully to refer to Ford's Model T.

freemartin an imperfectly developed female calf, usually sterile. Here, Huxley's term for a sterile woman. Most of the women of the dystopia are freemartins. 

Henry Ford (1863-1947) U.S. automobile manufacturer credited with developing interchangeable parts and the assembly-line process. Here, the god-like figure of the dystopia.

Ireland Experiment- short work days for lower caste workers

hypnopaedia sleep-teaching.

Malthusian drill Huxley's phrase for practicing contraception. From the word "Malthusian," referring to the theory developed by English economist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), that the world population tends to increase faster than the food supply with inevitable disastrous results unless natural restrictions, such as war, famine, and disease, reduce the population or the increase is checked by moral restraint.

mescal a colorless alcoholic liquor of Mexico made from pulque or other fermented agave juice.

Model-T the first car produced on Henry Ford's assembly line.

Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Huxley's term for the dystopian form of infant training. The term derives from the classical conditioning system named for the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1931).

Our Freud Huxley's phrase. A pious reference to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian physician and neurologist: father of psychoanalysis.

pneumatic inflated. Here, Huxley's word describing a woman with a full, shapely figure.

Podsnap's Technique Huxley's phrase. A method for speeding up the ripening of mature eggs. The process makes possible the production of many identical human beings at roughly the same time.

strumpet a prostitute.

viscose a substance used in making rayon thread and fabric.

viviparous bearing or bringing forth living young, as most mammals and some other animals do.

zippicamiknicks Huxley's word for one-piece underwear for women.