Brumous (adj) (literary)
broo-mus
Foggy and wintry.
mid 19th century: from French brumeux, from late Latin brumosus (from bruma ‘winter’).
Example sentences
“We strolled out on that brumous October morning.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
