Oh shit I wish I'd known before now, Oh shit that you were such a cow

[venta]

Today's word from The Calendar:

vitulation

Which means:

"a rejoicing like a calf"

(from Henry Cockeram's Interpreter of Hard English Words, 1623. It's apparently derived from the Latin, vitulinus, meaning of or belonging to a calf.)

So there you go. Vitulation. Use it three times in conversation today, and once in your LJ.

I'm impressed. As a word, it's so unlikely that even I'm not sure I can think of a conceivable use for it.

Comments

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Vitulate sounds like the thing a vituler would do. Now we're talking.

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www.dictionary.com and google reveal that "vituler" is not as common a word as I thought it was. "A purveyor of alcoholic beverage" is what I understood a vituler to be, and indeed there are a couple of instances out there which agree. But is it one of those regional things Liz is so fond of? [I spent my formative years predominantly in the Channel Islands.]

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think you mean victualler (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=victualler) ?

(Pronounced "vittler" in Yorkshire.)

I could well believe vituler was a regional version/variant spelling.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think you are right. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a mis-spelling rather than a variant as such.

I think I should stick to simple words I can spell and understand!