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
- undersow
- underspend
- understaffed
- understaffing
- understairs
- understand
- understandability
- understandable
- understandably
- understander
- understanding
- understandingly
- under starter's orders
- understate
- understated
- understatedly
- understatement
- understater
- under steam
- understeer
- understocked
- understood
- understored
- understorey
- understrapper