Godwottery
/ɡɒdˈwɒt(ə)ri
/noun [mass noun] British humorous
An affected quality of archaism, excessive fussiness, and sentimentality.
Origin
1930s: from the line ‘A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!’, in T. E. Brown's poem My Garden (1876).
Rhymes
- transit camp
- transit circle
- transit instrument
- transition
- transitional
- transitionally
- transitionary
- transition curve
- transition element
- transition metal
- transition point
- transition probability
- transition series
- transition temperature
- transitive
- transitively
- transitiveness
- transitivity
- transit lounge
- transitorily
- transitoriness
- transitory
- transit visa
- Transjordan
- Transjordanian