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But roseandivy, it sounds so...languid. :-)
That classic scene in Fargo. Ung-went!
This word disappointed me terribly. I was so sure it was pronounced un'JEHNT. Which is tasty. ung'gwehnt is icky.
One of the TSA's new obsessions...
An ointment or salve, neither of which word is as exciting as unguent.
Usages: c1440 Pallad. on Husb. IV. 147 Or madifie hit so in oil lauryne, Let drie hem, sowe hem, vp by oon assent They wol, and haue odour like her vnguent. 1778 LIGHTFOOT Flora Scot. II. 618 The buds yield a yellow resinous unguent. 1857 MAURICE Ep. St. John x. 162 Oils and unguents in the East had a virtue which we do not commonly attach to them.