victual

Pronounced: vih-tuhl, noun

Notes: This word is much more common in the plural: do you know the meaning of the singular form?


Yesterday’s word

The word klatsch is “a casual gathering of people for conversation, etc”

First usage

Our word came into English in the 1950s

Background / Comments

I have always heard people say “clutch” instead of “clatch” for the pronunciation, but such a pronunciation is not supported by the dictionaries I looked at. Our word comes from the German word Klastch (gossip).

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