Crozier (noun)
crow-zee-er
A hooked staff carried by a bishop as a symbol of pastoral office. / The curled top of a young fern.
Middle English (originally denoting the person who carried a processional cross in front of an archbishop): partly from Old French croisier ‘cross-bearer’, from crois ‘cross’, based on Latin crux; reinforced by Old French crocier ‘bearer of a bishop’s crook’.
Example sentences
“He walked to the front of the church, crozier in hand”
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…)
