dalmatic

Pronounced: dal-MAT-ick, noun

Notes: My guess at the meaning was far off the mark

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Yesterday’s word

The word battology is “a tiring repetition of words, either spoken or written”

First usage

This word goes back to around 1600

Background / Comments

I’ve definitely met people whose conversation was battology — just a repetition of the same stories without end. I heard one man tell the same store three times within a few minutes. Our word comes from Greek battología, which is báttos (stammerer) combined with -logia.