Pronounced: BUM-ber-shoot, noun
Notes: I knew this word, but it has an interesting background. Do you know the word?
Yesterday’s word
The word megrim can mean
- low spirits (when pluralized)
- whim
- migraine
First usage
Our word is quite old; coming into English in the mid-1400s
Background / Comments
Our word is another one that was created in error; when we took the word into English from the French word migraine, the “in” was mistakenly thought to be the letter “m” — and thus the word was thought to be ‘megrame’, which was Anglicized as megrim. The word migraine came from the Latin word hemicrania (a pain in one side of the head), which came from the Greek words hemi- (half) and kranion (skull).
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