Pronounced: ES-pluh-nod, noun
Notes: I wasn’t sure of the meaning, and I didn’t know how to pronounce this word
Yesterday’s word
The word pungle means “to make a payment; to shell out”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our word came from non-Spanish people pronouncing the Spanish word póngale (put it down): The proper pronunciation is PONE-gah-lay, but if one didn’t know that, one could assume that the word is pronounced PUHN-gull. Then another English-speaking person heard the wrong pronunciation and wrote it down as our word. The word póngale came from the Spanish word ponere (to put), which came from the Latin word ponere (to put).
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