Martha discusses another word she happily tripped over in the dictionary: spanghew. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Spanghew”
We were talking earlier about weird words that had stumped us the first time we encountered them.
Here’s one for you, Grant. Spanghew. Do you know that word?
Spanghew? No, is that a kind of wrench?
No, good guess, but it’s S-P-A-N-G-H-E-W.
If you look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition is to cause a frog or toad to go flying into the air.
Isn’t that great?
Outside of the Calaveras County frog jumping contest, what use have you for that?
Well, if you’ve got crazy words like this, if you just want to share them and you don’t care about being on the air,
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