Pronounced: PUNG-gull, verb
Notes: This word is supposed to be more common in the western part of the United States
Yesterday’s word
The word hendiadys is “a figure of speech in which two words joined by a conjunction are used to convey a single idea instead of using a word and it’s modifier” (examples in the Comments are)
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word is another technical language-based word. One example of our word is using “pleasant and warm” instead of “pleasantly warm” – but to me, these expressions have different meanings: “pleasantly warm” is only about the temperature, saying that it is not too hot – it is a bearable, enjoyable temperature. However, “pleasant and warm” indicates (to me) two different things: it is warm and it is a pleasant day – that is, not stormy. Our word came from the Latin word hendiadys, which came from the Greek phrase hen dia duoin (one by two).
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