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Jan 11, 2019
This week’s themePortmanteaux (blend words)
This week’s words
rurban
squiggle
palimony
guesstimate
contraption
“Utopian flying machines of the previous century”
Image: Romanet & cie., c. 1890
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PRONUNCIATION:
(kuhn-TRAP-shuhn) 
MEANING:
noun: A device that appears to be strange, makeshift, or complicated.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps a blend of contrive + trap + invention. Earliest documented use: 1825.
USAGE:
“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s just a police officer on a hoverbike. Dubai’s cops are training on the hi-tech contraptions.”
Cops Putting Crims in Spot of Hover; The Daily Telegraph (Surry Hills, Australia); Nov 10, 2018.
See more usage examples of contraption in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
Cops Putting Crims in Spot of Hover; The Daily Telegraph (Surry Hills, Australia); Nov 10, 2018.
See more usage examples of contraption in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
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