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Friday word: Mammothrept
Dec 01, 2017 06:49
Mammothrept, n.
obsolete: a spoiled child
Origin and etymology:
Greek mammothreptos child brought up by his grandmother, from mammē mother, grandmother + -o- + threptos, verbal of trephein to bring up, nourish
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