on 09-06-2015 05:51 PM
podunk- noun
a small unimportant town
The name of a river and native tribe in Connecticut. Over time the name came to be used for several small towns including a mythical small and insignificant town. Earliest documented use 1657.
10-06-2015 06:31 AM - edited 10-06-2015 06:32 AM
old word with the original defintiion
Shambles = a butchers slaughterhouse, meat market, a place of carnage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shambles
on 10-06-2015 07:29 AM
on 10-06-2015 11:29 AM
wilk,thats a really good point- I ought to have been clearer- I meant 'new words to you'...
Sorry about that, and thanks for pointing it out..
What about
junto- noun
A small, usually secret group of people united for a common purpose.
Alteration of Spanish/Portugese junta (committee, association) from Latin jungere (to join)Earliest documented use: 1641.
10-06-2015 05:47 PM - edited 10-06-2015 05:48 PM
I miss the Bucolic one. Still on holidays I guess.
(Relating to shepherd or herdsmen)
never-displayed
Still on holidays I guess. 
