Pronounced: POH-koh-kyu-RAN-tee, adj
Notes: Looks Spanish, but I don’t it
Yesterday’s word
The word dinky means, in the US, “small; insignificant; undesirable”. In the UK, it means “attractively tiny; cute”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1700s
Background / Comments
I did not realize that the UK meaning was different. Our word came from the Scots word dink (neat; trim).
