Pronounced: mih-thuh-MAY-nee-uh, noun
Notes: Not quite what I thought
Yesterday’s word
The word verbigerate means “to obsessively repeat meaningless words and phrases”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
Our word is a great word. There are people who don’t seem to be able to help verbigerating; I have memories of managers that just spout phrases, and I knew a fellow from work who had memorized a few phrases and spouted them to impress others, but he really had no idea what he was talking about. I don’t know that our word applies to such cases because I don’t know how obsessive either of these instances are. Our word came from the Latin word verbigerare (to talk; to chat), which came from verbum (word) and gerere (to carry one).
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