Word of the Week: a bookish meme hosted here on Mondays in which we share a word that we find entertaining, enlightening, edifying, or just plain fun to say! Share your own word on your blog, then help me grow the meme and come share it here on mine!
This week’s word is one I have never heard. It’s unusual, but usable enough that it may find its way into my vocabulary.
Two of the loafers, we understand, were yesterday taken and committed to prison; the other has absquatulated.
— The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), 13 June 1837
What’s your word of the week? Come link it up here! Share this with your friends so they can play, too. New words are fun!
That is an amazing word! Where did you come across it?!
Here is mine:
https://gypsireads.blogspot.com/2023/03/word-of-week-antepenultimate.html
The Merriam-Webster newsletter! I don’t remember the link title, but I clicked on it and found the perfect word of the week! I’m going to have to use it in conversation and watch people’s puzzled expressions.