Pronounced: NID-uhr-ing, noun
Notes: It looks like it might be a verb, but it isn’t
Yesterday’s word
The word gregarious means
- tending to associate with others of one’s kind; social
- marked by or indicating a liking for companionship; sociable
- (plants) living or growing in a cluster or a colony
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
The word I was confusing our word with was “garrulous”. Our word came from the Latin word gregarius (belonging to a flock), which came from grex (crowd; flock; herd). Originally, in English, it was used primarily for animals, but over the next hundred years or so, it spread to sociable people.
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