Pronounced: DITH-uh-ram (alt: DITH-uh-ramb), noun
Notes: I don’t think I’ve run across this word in reading
Yesterday’s word
The word samfie means “a swindler or a con man”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1920s
Background / Comments
It’s not entirely certain where this word hails from; it is thought to be from a language in West Africa (possibly).
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