Transmogrify (verb)
tranz-mog-ri-fai
To change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
Transmogrify entered English around 1650–60. Earlier, transmogrify was also written transmigrify or transmography. Transmogrify is apparently a pseudo-Latinism, which is a word formed from or imitative of Latin.
Example sentences
“To watch the caterpillar transmogrify to butterfly is quite the spectacle.”
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…
