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Words with world records

This week’s words
eunoia
scraunch
limnophilous
pharmacopoeia
oxygeusia

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PRONUNCIATION:

(skrawnch)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To crunch, crush, or grind.

ETYMOLOGY:

Of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1620.

NOTES:

The word scraunched is the longest one-syllable word in the English language.

USAGE:

“Sancho fell to, without invitation, and champed his bits in the dark, as if he had scraunched knotted cords.”
Miguel de Cervantes (translation: Thomas Shelton); Don Quixote; 1620.

See more usage examples of scraunch in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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