This week’s theme
Perfect synonyms

This week’s words
polyhistor
bombinate
echoism
cynophilist
timbrology

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PRONUNCIATION:

(BOM-buh-nayt)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To buzz or hum.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin bombinare, from bombilare (to hum, buzz), from Latin bombus (humming), from Greek bombos (booming, humming). Earliest documented use: 1880. A perfect synonym is bombilate.

USAGE:

“He hummed a ditty to himself and realized he could bombinate twice as loud in a void thrice as great as his head.”
Nidhi Singh; In Perpetual Dread of Happiness; Bards and Sages Quarterly (Bellmawr, New Jersey); Apr 2017.

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