What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?
What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?
Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.
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Defenestration. Throwing someone out of a window. Example the defenestration of prague
And Russian oligarchs
I like to make the joke whenever someone mentions a Russian doctor falling out of a window or something:
There's defense and there's defenestration.
It's composed of de- an fenestra, the latter meaning window.
So literally de-windowing
See also, defenestration trilogy
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