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May 23, 2019
This week’s themeTosspot words borrowed from other languages
This week’s words
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scaldabanco
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PRONUNCIATION:
(skal-duh-BAHNG-koh) 
MEANING:
noun: A fiery speaker, especially a preacher.
ETYMOLOGY:
From obsolete Italian scaldabanco (literally, heats the bench), from scaldare (to heat) + banco (bench). Earliest documented use: 1670.
USAGE:
“A hot scaldabanco ... verjuicing his sermon with every fright he could, he spit his wrath and spanked the vices of his age without a break or breath.”
Alexander Theroux; Darconville’s Cat; Doubleday; 1981.
Alexander Theroux; Darconville’s Cat; Doubleday; 1981.
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