This week’s theme
Words that appear rude, but aren’t

This week’s words
cockup
crapulous
pricket
fard
cunctation

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(KRAP-yuh-luhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Sick from excessive drinking or eating.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin crapula (drunkenness), from Greek kraipale (hangover, drunkenness). Earliest documented use: 1540. Also crapulent.

USAGE:

“He was feeling crapulous after drinking and wasn’t thinking of anything much when he went early to the beach.”
Jim Williams; The Argentinian Virgin; Quartet Books; 2009.

See more usage examples of crapulous in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: