This week’s theme
Coined words

This week’s words
rusticle
infodemic
interrobang
tulgey
nobodaddy

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(TUHL-jee)

MEANING:

adjective: Thick, dark, and scary.

ETYMOLOGY:

Coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem “Jabberwocky” in the book Through the Looking-Glass, perhaps as a blend of tough/turgid + bulgy. Earliest documented use: 1871.

USAGE:

“Fairy-tale treatments in our late century increasingly stray from enlightened enchantment into the dark and tulgey woods.”
David Jays; A Grimm business; New Statesman (London, UK); Dec 11, 1998.

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