



Today's Word of the Day is Munge:
Today's word of the day is Skimmington:
A word employed in the phrase, "To ride Skimmington"; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.
Today's word of the day is Deodand:
Deodand
-noun, English Law
(before 1846) an animal or article that, having been the immediate cause of the death of a human being, was forfeited to the crown to be applied to pious uses
Today's word of the day is Jiggery-Pokery:
Jiggery-pokery
–noun Chiefly British.
Today's word of the day is Hypnopompic:
Hypnopompic:
Of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep.