Pronounced: dik-TAHT, noun
Notes: I couldn’t define this word properly, but I did recognize bits of it…do you?
Yesterday’s word
The word gyve means, as a noun: “a fetter of shackle”; as a verb: to restrain
Background
The origin is unknown; it may be from Middle English and somehow related to “give”.
First usage
This is an old word; it goes back to the late-1200s.
Rejected word
bowdlerize: I happen to know this word; it may have been a vocabulary word in high school
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