Wordie [wûrd • ē]
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67 wordies list
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first listed by:
karnage (198 words)
appears in these lists:
pbg's Words, by pbg
jough's Words, by jough
some words, by John
to be sorted, by Jaybon
mjbrej's Words, by mjbrej
Niels's Words, by Niels
crisp words, by Emera
Found Words, by Sera
bilby's Words, by bilby
Kalopsia, by lepidopteran
Jax's Words, by Jax
Not edible, by mollusque
gift smift, by fbharjo
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like swag, right?
"We picked up one excellent word – a word worth travelling to New Orleans to get; a nice, limber, expressive, handy word – 'lagniappe.' They pronounce it lanny-yap. It is Spanish – so they said."
– Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi"
(courtesy The Online Etymological Dictionary)
Really? Who'd have guessed....
Wow! This is derived from a Quechua term!
Wikipedia cites Mark Twain pronouncing it lanny-yap, but in present day New Orleans it's pronounced LAN-yap, like your local area network is a LAN, and small dogs yap. LAN-yap.
"Call it a little lagniappe, goodbuddy, that’s Duane Marvy’s way o’ doin’ thangs."
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1973
Somewhere between the "baker's dozen" and a bribe.