Archive for New-to-me Words
Survivance
I think of it as a portmanteau of 'survival' and 'resistance', but that's evidently not how it was formed.
swarf
de-arrested
I would think that this de-arrest will come dear, but perhaps not dearer than de arrest.
Is it esculent?
esculent: edible, fit to be eaten According to dictionary,com, it originates in the 1620s, from L. esculentus, from esca “food,” from PIE *ed- “to eat” (see eat). (Link and usage examples here) I saw it a while back and hadn’t gotten around to following up on the idea that it would make a great first […]