Twitter is a great way to discover words that are new to you and to others. Just search with #newword or “new word,” and you’ll find gems like holus-bolus, meaning the whole thing or all together. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Finding New Words”
Here is an argument against Twitter being completely useless if you think it’s just frivolous talk about eating sandwiches or stuff like that.
Okay.
It is a great way to discover new words. Did you know that?
I absolutely know that. One of the ways you can do it is find out what words other people have discovered.
So you just search for the phrase new word.
-huh. And people will tell you on Twitter, I learned a new word today.
Oh, cool. Bill Milner in London learned holus bolus.
You know this one. Holus bolus. It means all at once.
Oh, okay. I love that word. Holus bolus. Holus bolus.
Is it two words? Yeah, two words hyphenated. Holus bolus.
You could say that he ate the turkey holus bolus. He ate the whole turkey all at once, right?
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