Today's wwftd is... galericulate

[Opentarot]

The worthless word for the day is: galericulate

[fr. L. galea, helmet]

Covered as with a hat

"Cucullate Flowers, Such as resemble the Figure of a Helmet, or Monk's Hood; being otherwise termed Galeate and Galericulate Flowers."
- Phillips's New World of Words (ed.6, 1706)

"Defining words like galericulate (“covered as with a hat”) is trivial compared with providing a useful definition of a word every English speaker already knows."
- Jack Lynch, The Lexicographer's Dilemma (2009)




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