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prettygoodwordrecrement - n., a secretion that is reabsorbed by the body (as saliva); waste, dross, worthless part.
Arrived in English in the 1590s via French, from Latin recrémentum dross, refuse, from re- in the sense of again + cernere, to separate -- in otherwords, what's been sifted through again, with a letter-swap.
---L.
Arrived in English in the 1590s via French, from Latin recrémentum dross, refuse, from re- in the sense of again + cernere, to separate -- in otherwords, what's been sifted through again, with a letter-swap.
---L.
