Pronounced: purr-FORCE, adv
Notes: This didn’t mean what I thought it meant…
Yesterday’s word
The word dundrearies is “long, flowing sideburns”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our was named after Lord Dundreary, a character in the play Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor. Lord Dundreary had long, busy sideburns. You may remember that this was the play Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Our word can also be called “dundreary whiskers”. In England, these kind of sideburns are called “Piccadilly weepers”.
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