This week’s theme
There is a word for it

This week’s words
arboricide
barbatulous
pseudonymuncle
whoness
pennyweighter

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(PEN-ee-way-tuhr)

MEANING:

noun: One who steals jewelry, especially by substituting a fake for the real one.

ETYMOLOGY:

From pennyweight jewelry, from pennyweight, the weight of a silver penny (1⁄240 of a pound). Earliest documented use: 1886.

NOTES:

The pennyweighter’s motto: All that glitters is not yours anymore. Read details of pennyweighters stealing jewelry at a home and at a store.

USAGE:

“And he’d look at the dune store ring the pennyweighter had managed to substitute for a diamond one.”
Fredric Brown; Mostly Murder; EP Dutton; 1953.

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