Mar 24 2025 - And the word of the day!

 

Is this a feature of the Globe and Mail's Editorial each day?  A word that is so novel and uncommon that it requires research.   I hope it is a feature of the paper - that somewhere, each day, I will find a word that compels me to look it up and find out more.   What is this word?  "Ron DeSantis tried to mock the idea of the maple-leaf tourism boycott earlier this month, saying that 3.3 million Canadians had visited his state.  "That's not much of a boycott in my book," he said." "We agree, Governor - because the number you cite was from 2024, before a US President launched a trade war against his country's biggest trading partner and closest ally.  Mr De Santis's misplaced braggadocio actually served to underscore the vulnerability of his state to a Canuck exodus"  "Braggadocio," originated from the name of a boastful character, Braggadocchio, in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590).  a. : empty boasting. b. : arrogant pretension : cockiness. the air of swaggering braggadocio that all important men are expected to show in fighting C. W. M. Hart. originates from brag or braggart + the Italian suffix -occio, denoting something large of its kind. Doesn't that make us wonder about  more words - flibbertigibbet?  And cattywampus, gardyloo, collywobbles, gubbins, and malarkey?   OK, I've got a few days worth of words to start the game myself. It would be great if this would be a regular Globe and Mail feature.

I went on a crocus hunt yesterday.  Not in the garden as the squirrels, mice, voles, and chipmunks have eaten the hundreds I planted, or replanted them next door.  I went through the database of pictures and found the wonderful crocuses that I had in the Toronto garden where there probably were more predators and fewer rodents.  Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca