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errantry
[ er-uhn-tree ]
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noun
behavior or performance like that of a traveling knight
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EXAMPLES OF ERRANTRY
- Their errantry involves traveling across rough terrain to shelters, delivering medical supplies no one else will carry.
- The newlyweds’ honeymoon ended up becoming a patchwork errantry, with unexpected detours, zany characters, and roadside rescues.
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- First recorded in 1880鈥�85.
- Imitates the sound of a yelping dog or canid; perhaps influenced or related to the word coyote, from the Nahuatl word 肠辞测艒迟濒.
EXAMPLES OF KYOODLE
- She let the audience kyoodle for a few minutes, then calmly picked up where she left off.
- The dachshund began to kyoodle the moment the mail carrier turned the corner.
trafficator
[ traf-i-key-ter ]
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noun
a blinker or turn signal on a vehicle
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- First recorded in 1930鈥�40.
- Combines traffic + (indic)ator.
- Originally used in British English; now common in Nigerian English.
EXAMPLES OF TRAFFICATOR
- Their left trafficator kept blinking long after the car had turned.
- As part of the transformation, the old trafficators were swapped for programmable LED strips.
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