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Someone posted an interesting-looking word this morning, about 9:30 EDT, and called it "my favorite new word." I was checking in at the airport and when I went back to DU on my phone I couldn't find that message again.
The word was several syllables long, and sort of reminded me of sesquipedalian, one of my own favorite multisyllabic words.
If anyone can help me out here, I would be thrilled. This has been bugging me all day because I feel like I am missing out on a cool addition to my vocabulary.
Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)3catwoman3
(24,092 posts)I do think it is interesting that there has been such an uptick in that word being searched. I suspect most of us here on DU use this word regularly.
More_Cowbell
(2,192 posts)Oh sorry, I just figured out that you read it HERE this morning.
3catwoman3
(24,092 posts)I added kakistocrasy to my lexicon shortly after the stolen election. IIRC, it was a dictionary.com Word of the Day. The editors at that site seek to have a decided left-leaning attitude.
unblock
(52,442 posts)3catwoman3
(24,092 posts)...and new to me.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)It was still in my Google search. From this post: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10502222
3catwoman3
(24,092 posts)What a great word, with plenty of opportunity to use it.
Now I will be able to sleep tonight.
Just for the fun of it, I checked to see if there is just plain "crepidarian." There isn't. Just like there is disgruntled but no gruntled.