Susie Dent
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I wish I had the words to describe the exceptional man that was Sean Lock. But today I don’t, and I think he might have liked it that way.
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Word of the day is ‘ingordigiousness’: extreme greed; an insatiable desire for wealth at any cost.
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Word of the day is 'maw-worm' (19th century): one who insists that they have done nothing wrong, despite evidence to the contrary.
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Word of the day is ‘sparple’ (14th century): to deflect unwanted attention from one thing by making a big deal of another.
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something unpleasant after a period of relief.
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Word of the day is ‘malversation’ (16th century): the corrupt administration of power.
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While Toilet Duck and Dettol are trending, here's a reminder of the word 'ultracrepidarian': one who consistently offers opinions and advice on subjects way beyond their understanding.
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Word of the day is 'filipendulous' (19th century): hanging by a thread.
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Hearing on
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Word of the day is ‘circumlocutionist’: one who consistently speaks in a roundabout way in order to avoid addressing a question directly.
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Word of the day is ‘spuddle’ (17th century): to work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.
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Word of the Day is 'snollygoster' (19th century, US): one who abandons all integrity in favour of power.
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Word of the day is 'sequaciousness' (17th century): the blinkered, unreasoning, and slavish following of another, no matter where it leads.
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Word of the day is Zugzwang [tzoog-tzwung]: a situation in chess (and life) in which a move must be made, but each possible one will make the situation worse.
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It’s that time again. A mumpsimus (16th century) is someone who refuses to budge/insists that they are right, despite clear evidence that they are wrong. Plural: mumpsimuses.
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Word of the day is 'roundaboutation' (19th century): bloviating or evasive talk that focuses on everything but the subject in hand.
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Word of the day is ‘forwaked’ (14th century): weary from watching and waiting for something that never seems to materialise.
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Phrase of the day, from the 16th century, is ‘give someone the bauble’: to play them for a sucker or fool.
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Word of the day is 'misken' (15th century): to refuse to recognise something by pretending it's not happening.
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Word of the day is ‘malversation’ (16th century). Simply put, it means ‘corruption in public office’.
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Word of the day is 'snollygoster' (19th century): an unprincipled person in office who is motivated by personal rather than public gain.
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Word of the day is 'snollygoster' (19th century): an individual guided by personal gain rather than by principles.
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Word of the day is 'exsibilate' (17th century): to hiss a poor performer off the stage.
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Word of the day is ‘bloviator’ (19th century): a speaker of empty rhetoric and blower of hot air; someone who talks a lot but says very little.
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Word of the day is ‘empleomania’ (19th century): the desire to hold office or wield power, whatever the cost.
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Word of the day, for Nazanin, is the French ‘retrouvailles’: the joy of reuniting after a long, long time apart.
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Word of the day, on repeat, is ‘latibulate’ (17th century): to hide in a corner until the situation improves.
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Word of the day (on repeat) is the 17th-century ‘latibulate’: to hide oneself in a corner in an attempt to avoid reality.
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Word of the day is ‘crapulent’ (17th century): suffering from the effects of excessive drinking/partying.
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Word of the day has to be ‘suspire’: to (finally) breathe out.
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Word of the day is ‘latibulate’ (17th century): to hide in a corner in an attempt to escape reality.
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A reminder of one of the most beautiful etymologies out there: the 'pupil' of the eye is named after the Latin 'pupilla', little doll' - because when we look into the eyes of another, we see a tiny, doll-like reflection of ourselves.
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My wish is that ‘respair’ will emerge from the forgotten pages of the dictionary and be on everyone’s lips in 2021: it means fresh hope and a recovery from despair. Happy New Year x
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Word of the day (again) is ‘stiffrump’ (18th century): a highly obstinate individual who refuses to budge.
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Word of the day is ‘pinchfart’ (16th century): a miser; one who withholds money to the detriment of others.
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Word fact of the day: ‘wend’ was once a regular alternative to the verb ‘go’. It is fossilised in the phrase ‘wend our way’. ‘Go’ eventually took over, but we still use the past tense of ‘wend’ - ‘went’ - rather than ‘goed’.
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Word of the day is another old favourite.
A 'mumpsimus' (16th century) is someone who insists that they are right, despite clear evidence that they are not.
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smellfungus (18th century): a grumbler, faultfinder, or one who likes to shift the blame for their own mistakes onto someone else.
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Word of the day is 'catchfart' (17th century): one who slavishly follows behind their boss and who blows with the political wind.
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Word of the day is ‘imprescience’ (19th century): a total lack of foresight and foreknowledge.
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Word of the day is a reminder of ‘sparple’ (14th century): to deflect attention from one thing by making a big deal of something else entirely.
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Word of the Day is one I’ve repeated often, because the time has surely come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
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A reminder, as if anyone needed it, that a 'snaccident' is the inadvertent eating of an entire packet of biscuits [etc] when you meant to have just the one.
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Word of the day is 'philodox' (17th century): one who is in love with their own opinion, and who consequently believes that everyone else should share it.
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Word of the day is ‘pish-monger’ (17th century): one who frequently says ‘pish’ to others and treats them with contempt.
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Fun wordy fact of the day for kids: the first freelancers were knights who weren’t attached to any single lord and master, and so were *free* to use their *lances*, or weapons, for anyone who paid them.
#homeschooling
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A sweet reminder from the dictionary: the word ‘daisy’ was originally ‘day’s eye’, because the flower opens its petals at dawn to reveal its sunny central disc, and closes them again at dusk.
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Word of the day (again) is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): a follower of the political wind; one whose actions are guided entirely by the whims and desires of their boss.
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Word of the day is ‘circumbendibus’ (17th century): an answer or argument so convoluted and evasive that it isn’t really an answer at all.
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Word of the day is 'bayard' (1600s): someone with an unshakeable self-confidence that is rooted in ignorance.
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Word of the day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has all the self-confidence of ignorance.
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Word of the day (again) is 'ipsedixitism': the dogmatic insistence that something is a 'fact' without providing any supporting evidence.
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Word of the day is 'rantum-scantum' (17th century): reckless, disorderly, and chaotic.
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Word of the day is ‘snerdle’ (18th century dialect): to wrap up cosily beneath the covers and hold off the day for a little longer.
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Word of the day is 'bayard' (16th century), beautifully defined as 'one blind to the light of knowledge, who has all the self-confidence of ignorance'.
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Word of the day is ‘mumpsimuses’ (16th century): those who insist they are right and apportion blame to others without looking at themselves.
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Word of the day is 'corrump' (14th century): to destroy something morally, or bring it down to nothing.
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If you’re in need of a comforting word today, a ‘hibernacle’ is a winter retreat, where you can pretend for a time that the outside world doesn’t exist.
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Word of the day is ‘flagitious’ (14th century): unspeakably wicked; guilty of heinous crimes.
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Word of the day is ‘snollygoster’ (19th century): one who abandons their principles for short-term gain or power.
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Word of the day is ‘throttlebottom’: an inept, bumbling, and possibly embarrassing holder of public office.
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Word of the day is ‘battologist’ (17th century): an individual who repeats the same story over and over, even when all the facts contradict them.
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Word of the day is ‘clinomania’: the excessive desire to stay in bed.
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Word of the morning is ‘clinomania’: the overwhelming desire to stay in bed.
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Word of the day is 'eye-servant' (16th century): one who only works properly or follows the rules when they are being observed.
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Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): the desire to be away from other people and to be left alone.
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A reminder that an ‘empleomaniac’ is someone desperate to hold on to power, no matter what the cost.
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet figure or individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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A reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ is to be exhausted before you even begin.
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In the past, you could be reckful (considerate) as well as reckless. People were also gormful (careful); feckful (responsible), ruthful (compassionate), wieldy (agile), ept (adroit), and definitely gruntled.
Bring back the lost positives.
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Word of the day is 'inadvertist' (17th century): one who consistently fails to take notice of things, or to read the signs.
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Word of the day is 'whiffler' (17th-century): a chronically indecisive and evasive person who swings from one course of action to another.
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Word of the day, should you need it, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): the desire to be away from other people.
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Word of the day is 'sorry-go-round' (19th century): a repetitive cycle of depressing actions or events.
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Your regular reminder that a 'mumpsimus' (16th century) is someone who insists that they are right despite clear evidence that they are not.
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Word of the day is 'hingum-tringum' (19th-century Scots): feeble and barely presentable; just about hanging together.
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Word of the day is 'curfuggle': a total mess or state of utter disarray.
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Word of (every) Christmas Day is ‘confelicity’: joy in the happiness of others.
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Another day for ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): lingering in bed long after it’s time to get up.
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Word of the day is 'struthonian' (1960s): one who ignores unwelcome facts and buries their head in the sand. From the Latin 'struthio', 'ostrich'.
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Word of the day is ‘stiffrump’ (18th century): an obstinate, disdainful individual who refuses to budge when action is needed.
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Word of the day is 'quockerwodger' (19th century): a puppet-like individual whose strings of action are pulled by someone else.
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Word of the Day is a reminder of ‘latibulate’ (17th century): to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.
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Word of the day is ‘quafftide’(16th century): a one-word announcement that it’s time for a drink.
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Another reminder that the word ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) describes someone who loves holding forth on matters they know absolutely nothing about.
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Word of the Day (on repeat) is 'ipsedixitism': the dogmatic assertion that something is 'fact' without any proof to back it up, or because someone, somewhere said it.
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Two words, each hundreds of years old, that are still worth holding on to: ‘respair’: fresh hope, and ‘resipiscence’: a return to a better frame of mind.
Here’s to both in 2023. Happy New Year.
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Word of the day (because it's time) is 'scurryfunging': madly dashing about in an effort to tidy up before visitors arrive.
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Word of the day is 'flapdoodler' (19th century): a speaker of nonsense; a deliverer of twaddle and flimflam.
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Word of the day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who shuts their eyes to reality and has all the confidence of ignorance.
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Word of the day is ‘bloviator’ (19th century): one who loves the sound of their own voice, who talks at length but ultimately says very little.
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Dictionary discovery of the day: ‘empleomania’ (19th century) is the manic desire to hold public office, at whatever cost.
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Word of the day is constult (17th century): to collectively play the fool/behave stupidly together.
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I know I have tweeted this often, but if the cap fits… A snaccident is the inadvertent eating of an entire packet of biscuits when you meant to have just the one.
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In case it’s useful, ‘dysania’ is the inability to get out of bed in the morning.
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Word of the day is the Finnish 'sisu': extraordinary determination and inner strength in the face of adversity.
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Word of the day, once again, has to be 'apricity' (17th century): the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
It's too good to lose.
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Word of the day is 'braggadocio' (16th century): an empty boaster and strutting swaggerer. Also used for the bluster and bombast they produce.
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English has an ancient law: in words like 'chit chat', 'zigzag', and 'seesaw', we always put the part with an i (as in 'pit') or e (as in 'be') first. We instinctively know this rule of 'ablaut reduplication'. You can't have a pair of flop flips or jamjims, or play pong ping.
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