Wednesday Word: absquatulate

[calzephyr77]

Absquatulate - verb. Just another humorous word meaning to flee or abscond. Or, vamoose, hightail it, bolt, scram, vanish or cheese it.

The mock Latin word is said to have been spoken by a character named Nimrod Wildfire in William B. Bernard's play, "The Kentuckian" in 1833.

Comments

[fieryphoenix]

Absquatulate sounds like something I need to get paper towels for.

[calzephyr77]

LMAO, doesn't it? :-D

[prettygoodword]

Ah, get outa here!

[calzephyr77]

I reckon them's fightin' words!

this just popped up recently, from The Grandiloquent WOTD ;))

[med_cat]

Re: this just popped up recently, from The Grandiloquent WOTD ;))

[calzephyr77]

LOL such a memorable word!

Re: this just popped up recently, from The Grandiloquent WOTD ;))

[med_cat]

Hehe, it is, isn't it ;)