Pronounced: kuh-KOG-ruh-fee, noun
Notes: You might be able to figure out this word
Yesterday’s word
The word unwonted means “unusual or unaccustomed”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
I’ve run across this word in reading, and I had a sense of the meaning from the context. However, I was pronouncing it like it was “unwanted”. Our word comes from un- (negation) and the Middle English word woned, wont (accustomed), which is the past principle of wonen (to be used to, to well).
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