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I had to Google both of them But then, I wasn't around in Italy in 1606 so I would have missed the play LLL

I was somewhat amused to read Horus that Jumentous, because it is a nice sounding word, can be taken as a compliment by someone not knowing its meaning. (Thinks....must remember that one )

I like H's word too -it has "juju" AND Grandad - you were NOT hanging about that long ago?

My new for today is: quixotic

I just like the way it sounds especially when I'm being foolish or frivolous

No doubt it has its origins in the fantasy character Don Quiot’e (sp)
As in he who 'tilts' at windmills.

I have the "Man of LaMancha" CD. Not a top top favourite but I do love the song "The Impossible Dream."

I also like the song "Impossible Dream" but Peter O'Toole doesn't quite cut it for me, I always reckon it needs to be sung with some power behind it
So I have given you Placido's version: Speakers on Full Bore

Hmmm - the new word of the day is a good one.......not even sure I can pronounce it and if I am pronouncing it correctly. Guess I'll have to keep saying it over and over and just talk on and on about it........

New word: BAVARDAGE

Nice one and I suppose we do a lot of that on here

yeah - some days more than others too

I heard this word again today and haven't heard it for a LONG time. It IS used here in Canada. Not sure if you know it in the UK

The NeW word for today is: GALOOT

If it means something like 'a clumsy, stumbling kind of person' as in "he is nothing but a big Galoot" then yes we do use that term, but not so much nowdays as when I was younger .

Same here. The phrase "he's a big galoot" means or implies a stumbling, bumbling big awkward guy. Was more common when I was a kid and it is a word that isn't really in use now.

Pecksniffian is the NEW word for today.

Personally have never heard of this word before at all and had to go and look it up.

Another one that pays tribute to our great bard Charles Dickens and uses the name of one of his many characters to describe a certain trait or behaviour. In this case it is Seth Pecksniff a charcter from the book Martin Chuzzlewit who could best be described as unctuously hypocritical with an "holier than thou" attitude towards others, so a nice one LLL

At first glance - ummm yes, something a dog does - -

Funny I thought chicken!

Good info H. Never put the word and Charles D together!

Jobation is the NEW word for today - And I'm not kidding!

Good one LLL, not come across that one before so I gave myself a good telling off for not knowing it

I didn't know this word either and had to Google it to find the meaning. I get the words at the end of a News show I watch as the Commentator gives a 'word of the day' at the end of every broadcast. Many I know, some I 'sort of know' and guess about but some I've never heard of at all. This was one of them so it came to land here.

Every once in a while too I come across a word in a book I'm reading that completely baffles me and that will also land here. Having studied Latin, albeit unwillingly at the time, has allowed me the ability to kinda figure out quite a few words but there are still some that completely stump me.

Caducity - And methinks my own caducity lends to me probably not remembering what this word means!