Last Christmas, my friend Trese gave me a "Forgotten English" desk calendar for 2007. Each day brings another obscure or outmoded word that's been dropped from the common vocabulary: culch, pharmacopolist, smartish-few, agapemone, glacier, etc.
Today's word is "ruderary," meaning "Belonging to, or formed of, rubbish." "From the root of Latin rudis, indicating the primary sense of rude, to be broken."
Happy birthday to me.
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