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

Word of the Day: DILLY-DAW

ETYMOLOGY
– from dilly as in dilly-dally + daw (n. a slattern, an untidy woman)

EXAMPLE
“…An’ is it no angersome to see her like a dilly daw, an’ bits o’ creatures that she could keep at her fire-side, buskit up like Flanders-babies?…”

From: The Saxon and the Gaël, Or, The Northern Metropolis
Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1814