Word of the day strikes back

[Sarah]

Word of the day from Susie Dent today:

Word of the Day is 'boodlery' (19th century): unprincipled behaviour in public office.

https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1 ... 55054?s=20

[Sarah]

Word of the day from Susie Dent today:

Word of the Day, because it’s getting closer, is ‘scurryfunge’ (from US dialect): to frenziedly tidy up the house just before guests descend.

https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1 ... 03772?s=20

[Sarah]

Two words from Susie Dent today:

‘Seijaku’, from Japanese, describes tranquillity in the midst of chaos; a stillness and calm even when the world seems mad.

You might find it in ‘apricity’: the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.

https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1 ... 82624?s=20

[Sarah]

Word of the day from Susie Dent today:

Word of the day (again) is ‘unasinous’: ‘united in stupidity’.

A 17th-century riff on ‘unanimous’ (literally, of ‘one mind’), based on the Latin for behaving like ‘one ass’.

https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1 ... 19192?s=20

[Sarah]

David Allen Green

Today is a day where I get to use the word "tortfeasor", which is perhaps the greatest highlight of legal commentary.

https://twitter.com/d_a_t_green/status/ ... 3434928233

Oxford Languages Dictionary

tortfeasor
noun LAW
a person who commits a tort

tort
noun LAW
noun: tort; plural noun: torts
a wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to legal liability

[Sarah]

Word fact of the day from Susie Dent today:

Word fact of the day: ‘penguin’ is one of the few words in the dictionary of Welsh origin: it comes from ‘pen gwyn’, ‘white head’.

https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1 ... 55779?s=20

[Sarah]

Word of the day from Susie Dent today:

Word of the day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has all the self-confidence of ignorance.

https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1 ... 4361660416

[Sarah]

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

(humorous) The fear of long words.

Usage notes

It is unlikely that this 15-syllable contrivance is ever used purely for its meaning. The term sesquipedalophobia is recognized in formal writing.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopot ... aliophobia

[Richard Frost]

Susie Dent on tour "Susie Dent presents The Secret Lives Of Words"

https://www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/susie-dent

[Sarah]

Etymology of the day from Susie Dent:

Etymology of the day is ‘tawdry’, meaning cheap, sordid, or in poor taste. It began as ‘St Audrey’s lace’: ribbons worn as necklaces to honour a 7th-century saint of Ely. Thanks to their often shoddy quality, ‘tawdry laces’ became linked to cheap or disreputable behaviour.

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