Saturday, 11 July 2009
Yclept
An archaic word meaning named. A typical example of the sort of word to be found in Peter Bowler's
"The Superior Person's Book of Words"
. Clepe was Old English for a name or, as a verb, meant to name. It is pronounced EEK-lept.
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