Pronounced: hwig-muh-LIR-ee, noun
Notes: Also written whigmaleery. This word also looks like something made up.
Yesterday’s word
The word dovecote has the following meanings (as I noted yesterday, I knew of the first one, but the second was new to me)
- a small compartmented raised house of box for domestic pigeons
- a settled or harmonious group or organization
Background
Shakespeare used dovecote in Cariolanus (early 1600s), but the word is older than that (see below). It came from late Middle English. Shakespeare invented the expression “like an eagle in a dove-cote”
First usage
The word goes back to the late 1300s.
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