Cunctator is just a lesser-known term for a procrastinator—- one that happens to fit into a funny limerick. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Cunctator”
I really like this new word that I learned from OEDILF.com.
It’s conctator.
Conctator. That’s familiar to me somehow.
I know it was vaguely familiar to me too.
I don’t know.
I’m afraid it describes me.
Let’s see if you can guess what it is.
Consider the wretched cunctator, a promptness and timeliness hater, punctuality’s foe who exemplifies slow and prefers to do everything later.
So it’s a procrastinator.
Pretty much.
Nice.
It comes from a Latin word that means…
C-U-N-C-T-A-T-E-R-O-R.
Yeah.
It comes from a Latin word that means somebody who delays.
Cunctator.
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