This week’s theme
Words that appear to be coined after someone (but aren’t)

This week’s words
ruminate
bushwa
obambulate
trumpery
hilarity

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.” ~Emerson
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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(o-BAM-byuh-layt)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To walk about.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin ob- (to) + ambulare (to walk). Earliest documented use: 1614.

USAGE:

“Mukul was obambulating in circles like a caged animal.”
Sam Mukherjee; Chopped Green Chillies in Vanilla Ice Cream; Rupa Publications; 2011.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: