Today's wwftd is... underconstumble

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Aug 30, 2011, 8:23:38 AM8/30/11

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The worthless word for the day is: underconstumble

[alteration of undercumstand < understand]

UK dialect : to understand (also undercumstumble)

"Waiting, guvnor? Most deciduously. Bet your boots on. Stunned like, seeing as how no shiners is acoming. Underconstumble?"
- James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

"I undercumstumble our little Francesca -- we shall see her trotting home one of these days, you mark my words."
- E. M. Delafield, The Pelicans (1919)