GODWOTTERY


Meaning of GODWOTTERY in English

[ gɒd'wɒt(ə)ri ]

■ noun Brit. humorous affectedly archaic or elaborate speech or writing.

Origin

1930s: from the line ‘A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!’, in T. E. Brown's poem My Garden (1876).

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