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Godwottery - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · Affectedly archaic or elaborate speech or writing. · An affected or over-elaborate style of gardening or attitude towards gardens. References. edit. ^ “ ...
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godwottery, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun godwottery is in the 1930s. OED's earliest evidence for godwottery is from 1931, in the Evening Standard (London).
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'godwottery': meanings and origin - word histories
Of British-English origin, the derogatory noun godwottery denotes: – gardening or garden design in an affected, fussily decorative or ...
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A.Word.A.Day -- godwottery - Wordsmith.org
noun: 1. Gardening marked by an affected and elaborate style. 2. Affected use of archaic language. From the line "A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!"
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Godwottery: The Garden Reworked - Joellyn Rock
godwottery (god-WOT-uhr-ee) noun. Meaning: 1. A highly romantic, exaggeratedly elaborate garden, usually composed of bizarrely incompatible plants and ...
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Godwottery
God-wottery, Godwottery (gɒdˈwɒtərɪ) Also with lower-case initial. [f. God wot (cf. god n. 10) in the line ‘A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!’ in T. E. Brown's poem My Garden (1876) + -ery.] An affected or over-elaborate style of gardening or attitude towards gardens (see quots.); also (in quot...
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Godwottery - Letting Myself Go
The best thing about this poem is that it led to the creation of the wonderful word 'godwottery', which was used to describe an overly decorated and kitsch ...
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godwottery - Good Word Word of the Day alphaDictionary * Free ...
Meaning: 1. A highly romantic, exaggeratedly elaborate garden, usually composed of bizarrely incompatible plants and objects. 2. A love or affection for such ...
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GODWOTTERY AND ROFLING. - languagehat.com
1) Michael Quinion explains the unusual and bifurcated term godwottery, which can mean either “the employment of deliberately archaic vocabulary ...
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Godwottery - World Wide Words
Godwottery for gardeners means an exaggeratedly elaborate creation that jumbles together incompatible styles and materials with kitsch decorations.
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Godwottery - Inky Fool
Godwottery can also mean tacky gardening. The collective noun for a horde of gnomes and charming water-features is godwottery. Here, for example ...
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pebble
▪ I. pebble, n. (ˈpɛb(ə)l) Forms: α. 1 papol-, popel-stán, 6 pipple-, pypple-, pibple-stan(e; also 6 poppell, 7 pipple. β. 4 pobble; 3–6 puble-, 4 pibbil-, 6 pybble-ston; 6 pyble, 6–7 pible, 6–7 (dial. –9) pibble; 6– pebble, (6–7 (dial. –9) peable, peeble, 7–8 peble). [Existing in many forms, some g...
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