This week’s obscure English word is barmecide. It is an eighteenth century term derived from the name of a character in the Arabian Nights stories, meaning something imaginary and disappointing.
Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word.
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A good word for reviewing books? As in, “This novel is a total barmecide.”
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It is rather good in that sense!
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The coolest things on the Internet turn out, for the most part, to be barmecide.
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