'Cause I'm A Bit Of A Dictionary Geek

[disbelief11]

I bought myself a page-a-day calendar this year - Forgotten English.

Some of my favorite words so far: ignify, womblety-cropt, and dismurderized.

Today's tidbit of interest also caught my dictionary loving attention:

Birthday of Sir James Murray (1837-1915), Scottish-born lexicographer... After determining that farm life was not for him...he

Comments

[anathema666]

Oooh, what's "womblety-cropt"?

[disbelief11]

"The disposition of a drunkard after a debauch." - James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855.