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May 31, 2022
This week’s theme
Portmanteaux (blend words)

This week’s words
frenemy
glamp
insinuendo
coopetition
glamazon

glamp
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glamp

PRONUNCIATION:
(glamp)

MEANING:
verb intr.: To camp in comforts or luxuries not typically available in camping, such as electricity, plumbing, beds, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:
Back-formation from glamping, a blend of glamorous + camping. Earliest documented use: 2007.

USAGE:
“She was the kind of woman who booked the poshest cabin at the top of the mountain and glamped in warmth and luxury.”
Shanae Johnson; His Strength to Stand; 2021.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, / I stand and look at them long and long. / They do not sweat and whine about their condition, / They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, / They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, / Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, / Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, / Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. -Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892)

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