Jan 25: matroclinous/al/ic! I hope I inherited much from my mother. #ayearofwords
January 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Jan 25: matroclinous/al/ic! I hope I inherited much from my mother. #ayearofwords
Feb 8: attacabottoni! What a great word, and fun to say too. #ayearofwords
February 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Feb 8: attacabottoni! What a great word, and fun to say too. #ayearofwords
August 26: plagium! I never spent any time thinking of the Latin root for plagiarist, but this makes sense- word kidnapping. #ayearofwords
August 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
August 26: plagium! I never spent any time thinking of the Latin root for plagiarist, but this makes sense- word kidnapping. #ayearofwords
Jan 26: kobold. Many modern uses! #ayearofwords
January 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Jan 26: kobold. Many modern uses! #ayearofwords
August 25: jactation. Jagoffs, jactating! #ayearofwords
August 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
August 25: jactation. Jagoffs, jactating! #ayearofwords
April 7: fletcherism! Now you know. #ayearofwords
April 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
April 7: fletcherism! Now you know. #ayearofwords
Feb 24: Drogulus! This one bends my mind. #ayearofwords
February 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Feb 24: Drogulus! This one bends my mind. #ayearofwords
Jan 31: objurgate! Only if you put action behind your objurgation. #ayearofwords
January 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Jan 31: objurgate! Only if you put action behind your objurgation. #ayearofwords
April 16: debouch! Debouch right on into this day. #ayearofwords
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
April 16: debouch! Debouch right on into this day. #ayearofwords
Jan 22: agrestic! I found the surrounding words to be interesting as well so you have some bonuses today. #ayearofwords
January 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Jan 22: agrestic! I found the surrounding words to be interesting as well so you have some bonuses today. #ayearofwords
Feb 15: restive! An adjective for resistant, of sorts. #ayearofwords
February 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Feb 15: restive! An adjective for resistant, of sorts. #ayearofwords
April 18: hyperborean! Brr. Side note I viscerally need some warm weather this weekend. Something somewhere needs to feel hopeful, somehow. #ayearofwords
April 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
April 18: hyperborean! Brr. Side note I viscerally need some warm weather this weekend. Something somewhere needs to feel hopeful, somehow. #ayearofwords
March 15: ambsace! At some point luck has to run out, right? #ayearofwords
March 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
March 15: ambsace! At some point luck has to run out, right? #ayearofwords
Jan 28: meliorism. Definitely don’t see myself using this word much (at all) this year. #ayearofwords
January 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Jan 28: meliorism. Definitely don’t see myself using this word much (at all) this year. #ayearofwords
Feb 19: decollate! A handy word, and a reference to a great painting. #ayearofwords
February 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Feb 19: decollate! A handy word, and a reference to a great painting. #ayearofwords
Feb 16: caitiff- I see using this word so much it comes back out of obscurity. #ayearofwords
February 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Feb 16: caitiff- I see using this word so much it comes back out of obscurity. #ayearofwords
September 19: palindrome! Neither an obscure nor challenging word IMHO but I love palindromes so- Happy Friday! #ayearofwords
September 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
September 19: palindrome! Neither an obscure nor challenging word IMHO but I love palindromes so- Happy Friday! #ayearofwords
December 31: ok here it is folks the last word of #ayearofwords and the last word in this book! Zymurgy, as in wine making brewing and distilling. We made it! Raise a glass!
December 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
December 31: ok here it is folks the last word of #ayearofwords and the last word in this book! Zymurgy, as in wine making brewing and distilling. We made it! Raise a glass!
December 20: polyptych! I can think of many examples of diptych and triptych works of art, let’s see your polyptychs. #ayearofwords
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
December 20: polyptych! I can think of many examples of diptych and triptych works of art, let’s see your polyptychs. #ayearofwords
June 7: fundament! And now I want someone to make a t-shirt saying, “I put the fun in fundament” #ayearofwords
June 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
June 7: fundament! And now I want someone to make a t-shirt saying, “I put the fun in fundament” #ayearofwords