Peccant (adj) (archaic)
pe-kant
Diseased or causing disease./Having committed a fault or sin.
Late 16th century (in peccant (sense 2)): from Latin peccant- ‘sinning’, from the verb peccare.
Example sentences
“And now we are stuck with tourists leaving their piccant matter everywhere during a pandemic.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
