This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
gazump
al desko
grinagog
pot-valor
gazunder

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PRONUNCIATION:

(GRIN-uh-gog)

MEANING:

noun: One who is always grinning.

ETYMOLOGY:

From grin, from Old English grennian (to show the teeth in pain or anger) + apparently -agogue (bringer). Earliest documented use: 1565.

USAGE:

“Now you both look like grinagog, the cat’s uncle. Come, Galli, wipe that smile off your face.”
James G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc; The Stoneholding; Baen; 2009.

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