Friday word: Tittynope
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A fun Friday word, from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day:
Tittynope [TIH-tee-nohp]
(n.)
- A small quantity of something left over such as uneaten food.
- A residual morsel or a crumb.
Origin officially unknown but this author suspects that perhaps it is derived from the word “tittle” (a tiny amount or part of something) from Latin “titulus” which was used in Medieval Latin, Middle English, and Old French (a stroke over an abridged word to indicate letters missing) compare Provençal “titule” (the dot over the letter -i-)
Used in a sentence:
“Never one to let a good tittynope go to waste, Leighton is once again annoying everyone within earshot by sucking loudly on the straw to drain the last remaining drops of his chocolate potation.”
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Many thanks to the comm posters
calzephyr , sallymn , and simplyn2deep for keeping this comm going!~~
A fun Friday word, from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day:
Tittynope [TIH-tee-nohp]
(n.)
- A small quantity of something left over such as uneaten food.
- A residual morsel or a crumb.
Origin officially unknown but this author suspects that perhaps it is derived from the word “tittle” (a tiny amount or part of something) from Latin “titulus” which was used in Medieval Latin, Middle English, and Old French (a stroke over an abridged word to indicate letters missing) compare Provençal “titule” (the dot over the letter -i-)
Used in a sentence:
“Never one to let a good tittynope go to waste, Leighton is once again annoying everyone within earshot by sucking loudly on the straw to drain the last remaining drops of his chocolate potation.”
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My book, "Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions" is available for pre-order! https://amzn.to/3R05mfJ
