This week’s obscure English word is tournedos. Well, when I say English, I mean really French – it’s another one English has pinched from them. It means a small round cut of beef. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018 Advertisements
This week’s obscure English word is fipple. It’s the mouthpiece of a recorder or similar wind instrument with a horizontal slot. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is prodrome. It’s a seventeenth century medical term, derived from French, meaning an early symptom that signals the onset of illness. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is feoffee. It maybe sounds like a kind of extra cost on your coffee order, or maybe a mis-spelling of ‘covfefe’, but actually it’s a noun derived from old feudal terminology, and in the modern sense refers to a trustee of a freehold estate used for charitable purpose. Your challenge: … More The obscure word of the week is feoffee
This week’s obscure English word is lacinate. It is a botanical term meaning something – such as a leaf – that is divided into narrow and irregular segments, and is derived from the Latin ‘lacinia’, meaning the fringe of a piece of cloth. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this … More The obscure word of the week is lacinate
This week’s obscure English word is dotish. It’s a sixteenth century term meaning stupid. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is pore. It’s not all that obscure – though it’s important not to confuse it with ‘pour’. However, my knowledge of its meanings was poor until I pawed through the full Oxford English Dictionary (second edition) and discovered it that pore is poured full of meaning, as it were – … More The obscure word of the week is pore
