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Anent
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
anent
"concerning, about," early 13c., onont "on level with," also "in the company of, fronting against," from O.E. on efn "on even (ground) with;" the parasitic -t added 12c. A northern form (in Midlands, anenst, with adverbial genitive), affected by English writers in Scottish sense of "in respect or reference
EXPANDto." Cf. Ger. neben "near to, by the side of," short for in eben, from O.H.G. ebani "equality."
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