SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: PABULUM
PRONUNCIATION:
(PAB-yuh-luhm)
MEANING:
noun:
Bland intellectual fare: insipid or simplistic ideas, entertainment, writing,
etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin pabulum
(food, fuel, fodder), from pascere (to feed). Ultimately from the Indo-European
root pa- (to protect or feed), which also gave us food, foster, fodder, forage,
pasture, pantry, and companion. Earliest documented use: 1661.
USAGE:
“This is not art,' I
said. 'This is casual diversion, pabulum for the merchant class.”
Haim Watzman; Interzmezzo; The Jerusalem Report (Israel); Dec 19, 2011.
Haim Watzman; Interzmezzo; The Jerusalem Report (Israel); Dec 19, 2011.
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