redonkulous
adj.— «The other driver’s insurance company is claiming they have to determine liability…which, to me, is a bit redonkulous (to steal a word from my brother), seeing as how I was nowhere near my car.» —“How Cold Is It? Oh, Look At That Poor, Shivering Dog!” St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minn.) July 20, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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