Pronounced: ZUG-muh, noun
Notes: An interesting tie-in with a Nobel Prize winner
Yesterday’s word
The word Klondike is “a rice source of something valuable”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
I knew of the Klondike gold rush, but didn’t know our word meant anything else. Our word came from the Klondike region, which was named after the Klondike River (the Klondike is in the Yukon Territory of Canada).
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