Sheriffalty is a word. Keep that in mind if you have the a, l, t and y Scrabble tiles and the word sheriff is already on the board.
My personal favorite of odd words is yclept. It leapt off the page of the novel, But Look the Morn (MacKinlay Kantor's tale of childhood in Webster City, Iowa). Actually yclept was paired with another word you seldom see: illy. So the phrase was
Which means poorly named. And visually bizarre.
My personal favorite of odd words is yclept. It leapt off the page of the novel, But Look the Morn (MacKinlay Kantor's tale of childhood in Webster City, Iowa). Actually yclept was paired with another word you seldom see: illy. So the phrase was
illy yclept
Which means poorly named. And visually bizarre.