This week’s obscure English word is lagan. It is a sixteenth century legal term meaning wreckage, including trade goods, sitting at the bottom of the sea. 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 jejune. It’s an adjective derived from the Latin word for fasting, and means simplistic; or – in the case of writing – dull. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is turbary. This word means the legal right to cut turf or peat from ground belonging to somebody else. It was important, upon a time, because peat was a specific and limited resource in certain regions; but who’d have ever imagined that the rights to cut it actually had its … More The obscure word of the week is turbary
This week’s obscure English word is variorum. It means an edition of an author’s work, with notes by a variety of editors, and often with variations on the main text. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is extempore. Extempore – something done on the spur of the moment, or spoken without preparation. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is tousle. It means to make something, usually hair, untidy, and is derived from a Middle English word, ‘tous’. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is frumenty. It’s the name of an eighteenth century pudding made mostly of wheat boiled in milk, sweetened with sugar, often with raisins, thickened with egg yolk and topped with a spice such as nutmeg or cinnamon. The word is derived from Middle English, French and then Latin, meaning ‘corn’. … More The obscure word of the week is frumenty
