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A mate of mine sent me a quiz earlier and in it was a question about the meaning of:
Agathokakological
I'd never heard of it and as I used to to plenty of puzzles, Times crosswords etc. I was
astounded to see the FIRST online reference to it stating the following:
"A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age.
About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word."
I'd be astonished if more than a handful would know that - there are plenty of
obscure words I recognise, despite being unaware of their definitions (or I've
forgotten them) but this one had zero familiarity about it!
I must be even thicker than everyone else thought
No cheating, so be honest and tell me if you know its definition.
Agathokakological
I'd never heard of it and as I used to to plenty of puzzles, Times crosswords etc. I was
astounded to see the FIRST online reference to it stating the following:
"A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age.
About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word."
I'd be astonished if more than a handful would know that - there are plenty of
obscure words I recognise, despite being unaware of their definitions (or I've
forgotten them) but this one had zero familiarity about it!
I must be even thicker than everyone else thought
No cheating, so be honest and tell me if you know its definition.
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Just realised that link, which was from wordpanda.net is clearly an unreliable
source as they've inserted a superfluous apostrophe in their citation. |
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Hi Gibberish,
I occasionally use rare words, like fludge, alaquenshical, contricity, and "okay, I'll get the next round", but this one defeats me! Best guess is: to apply reasoning in the way demonstrated by a protagonist in an Agatha Christie detective story!  |
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As I suspected...a few hours have gone by and nobody knows - at least you're honest
Apparently it's something that's composed of good & evil - a bit like BLM  |
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"A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age.
About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word." What a sac of shít that paragraph is |
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Agathokakological
Definition: : composed of both good and evil Example: "For indeed upon the agathokakological globe there are opposite qualities always to be found." - Robert Southey, The Doctor, 1834 About the Word: Agathokakological is likely the creation of Robert Southey, a reviewer and poet who was born in Bristol in the late 18th century. This thorny mouthful is made by combining the Greek roots agath- (good), kako- (a variant of cac-, meaning bad), and -logical (the adjectival suffix based on logos, meaning word). Southey was exceedingly fond of peppering his writing with new coinages (The Oxford English Dictionary lists him as the earliest known author for almost 400 words), very few of which have caught on. The reason for this is that most of them tend to be rather unwieldy, and we haven't much need to adopt such specimens as futilitarian (a person devoted to futility), batrachophagous (frog-eating), and epistolization (letter writing) in our everyday discourse. So that's where 'cack' comes from eh? Another new one to me. |
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well i've only just seen this, i heard it many years ago when my French teacher was describing my written text
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Bap - did you remember its definition?
If so, a doff of the non-existent cap to you sir - even allowing for the after-timing |
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no, not exactly as the one above; it was explained to me, by my wordsmith teacher as "Good & bad in places"
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