Pronounced: GLAHM, verb
Notes: I’m puzzled by the definition I have for the word; it doesn’t match the usage I have run across
Yesterday’s word
The word doryphore is “a pedantic or persistent critic”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1950s
Background / Comments
Frankly, I don’t quite understand the background of our word: it came from the French word doryphore (Colorado beetle – a potato pest), which came from the Greek word doruphoros (spear carrier). I’m told that it was the author Harold Nicolson that used the word per the definition above… but how that usage relates to the background isn’t obvious to me.
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