gadzookery

noun

Etymology

From gadzooks + -ery.

Definitions

  1. The use of archaism, tushery.

    • By anagramming letters and altering the order of words, he produces two quatrains, which we content merely to quote as examples of gadzookery.
    • Her spare prose and dialogue give a period flavour without the dread excesses of gadzookery.
    • The cladding is often gadzookery but the story motifs […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gadzookery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA