Word of the Day: DAPOCAGINOUS

ETYMOLOGY
– from Italian dappocaggine (lack of intelligence or ability);
from dappoco (of a person: lacking intelligence or ability);
from da (of ) + poco (adv. a little, slightly) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“…Were any one of the wretched broadcasting financial experts to declare not that the housing market is ‘being squeezed’ but that his dapocaginous (mean-spirited; heartless) rigadoon (lively baroque period dance) of fiscal ineptitude that has elumbated (made weak in the loins) every homeowner to an abapical (at the lowest point) financial state is made no better by the rodomontade (bluster) of politicians yarling (howling), why then I might again pay attention…”

From: The Chain of Curiosity
Sandi Toksvig, 2013

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