Worthless Word for the Day

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the worthless word for the day is: capernoited

[perhaps from capernaite (a believer in
transubstantiation)] /KAP er noi ted/
Scot. 1) crabbed, peevish 2) muddleheaded, tipsy

"It was an ill hour that he darkened my doors in,
for, ever since that, Alan has given up his ain old-
fashioned mother-wit for the tother's capernoited
maggots and nonsense."
- Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet (1824)


"Of the stark aquavitæ they baith lo'ed a drappie,
And when capernutie then aye unco happy."
- Whistle-Binkie (Sc. Songs) (1853)