This week’s theme
Portmanteaux (blend words)

This week’s words
rurban
squiggle
palimony
guesstimate
contraption


Next week’s theme
Adjectives

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(kuhn-TRAP-shuhn)

MEANING:

noun: A device that appears to be strange, makeshift, or complicated.

ETYMOLOGY:

Perhaps a blend of contrive + trap + invention. Earliest documented use: 1825.

USAGE:

“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s just a police officer on a hoverbike. Dubai’s cops are training on the hi-tech contraptions.”
Cops Putting Crims in Spot of Hover; The Daily Telegraph (Surry Hills, Australia); Nov 10, 2018.

See more usage examples of contraption in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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