Conditions

CURRENT CONDITION:

the worthless word for the day is: antejentacular

[fr. L. ante-, before + jentacul-um, breakfast]
archaic before breakfast
(compare postprandial)

"Not one poor visit in the antejentacular perambulations."
- Jeremy Bentham, correspondence (1843)

"You will learn that the holder for a handleless coffeecup
is called a zarf (if you didn't already know it); that the
antonym for postprandial (afterdinner) is antejentacular
(before breakfast), while the antonym of wealth may well
be illth..."
- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, NY Times Aug 9, 1982


CONDITION IN 2 HOURS:

the worthless word for the day is: malnoia

[fr. mal- : ill, wrong + Gk nous, mind] /mal NOI ah/
a vague feeling of mental discomfort

"At last—the word we all wanted, to describe the
way we feel five minutes after waking up in the
morning when we realize that we are about to
recall yesterday's unresolved problems."
- Peter Bowler, The Superior Person's Second Book
of Weird and Wondrous Words (1992)