While doing my English set reading - David Lodge The Art of Fiction - I came across a lovely word I thought you may all like to hear. It is describing Emma's father, of Jane Austen's Emma.
Today's Word:
Valetudinarian
Invalid; someone who is continuously obsessive about his / her health.
Sentence example: She felt it would be immoral to go out with her friends and leave her valetudinarian mother at home alone.
By Jess
Does this not, to at least some extent, describe my dear mother?
ReplyDeleteEnjoying this word. Not comvinced I'll be working it into sentences anytime soon though...
Hahaha your mother is an exceptional case. She is both valetudinarian and groovy. And it may well come up in conversation:
ReplyDelete"Is your mum coming to Eli's bar mitzvah after party [a long time off I know]"
"No, I'm afraid she is a little too valetudinarian for such excursions."
See?? It will come in very useful indeed.