Rodomontade (noun)
rod-oh-mon-taid
Boastful or inflated talk or behaviour.
Early 17th century: from French, from obsolete Italian rodomontada, from Italian rodomonte, from the name of a boastful character in the medieval Orlando epics.
Example sentences
“I’m sick of his ‘best of everything’ rodomontade.”
“He’s total nonsense, a big bag of rodomontade.”
Misbegotten (adj)
mis-bee-got-un
Badly conceived or planned.
Contemptible (used as a term of abuse)
From the archaic use to describe a child as illegitimate.
Naevus (noun)
nee-vus
A birthmark or a mole on the skin, especially a birthmark in the form of a raised red patch
Mid 19th century: from Latin.
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Ecdysis (noun)
ek-die-sis
The process of shedding the old skin (in reptiles) or casting off the outer cuticle (in insects and other arthropods).
Mid 19th century: from Greek ekdusis, from ekduein ‘put off’, from ek- ‘out, off’ + duein ‘put’.
Plethora (noun)
ple-tho-ra
A large or excessive amount of something.
Mid 16th century (in the medical sense): via late Latin from Greek plēthōrē, from plēthein ‘be full’.
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Uliginous (adj)
ul-ij-in-us
Marshy, swampy, water-logged
Latin ūlīginōsus full of moisture, wet, equivalent to ūlīgin- (stem of ūlīgō) moisture + -ōsus -ous
Queach (noun) (English regional)
kwee-ch
A dense growth of bushes; a thicket. Also: a patch of untillable land characterized by such thickets.
Late 15th century; earliest use found in The Book of St. Albans. Origin uncertain.
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