ponceau

Pronounced: pon-SO, noun/adj

Notes: I didn’t know this word


Yesterday’s word

The word slubber means “to perform hastily or carelessly”

First usage

Our word came into English in the mid-1500s

Background / Comments

Our word comes from the Low German word slubbern (to do work carelessly): not related to ‘slobber’ at all.

Published by Richard

Christian, lover-of-knowledge, Texan, and other things.

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