Pronounced: ma-luh-PUHRT, adj
Notes: I see a kind of opposite to “expert” in this word (but I’m wrong)
Yesterday’s word
The word ambage means “ambiguity; circumlocution”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1300s
Background / Comments
A shortcut word for “ambiguous”. Our word came from the Middle English word ambages (equivocation); our word – the singular – was coined from it. It came from the Latin word ambages, which is made up of ambi- (both; around) and agere (to drive).
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