Pronounced: buh-NAW-sik, adj
Notes: Interesting word I didn’t know
Yesterday’s word
The word zeugma is “the use of a word to refer to two or more words, especially in different senses” (example in the comments)
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
In the sentence “We have been in the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and confusion”, the word state is a zeugma, because is it used in the sense of a US state as well as a condition. Another zeugma is “He caught a fish and a cold”. Our word came from the Latin word zeugma, which came from the Greek word zeugma (a joinging).
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