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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY :PABULUM

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.

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