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contumacious
Aug. 19th, 2008 07:34 amcontumacious - adj., stubbornly disobedient, willfully disobedient.
A word for a coworker with a toddler. Used since the 1590s, as adjectival form of contumacy, which had been around (as contumacie) since the last 12th century, from Latin contumācia, from contumāx, unyielding, stubborn, of uncertain etymology.
---L.
A word for a coworker with a toddler. Used since the 1590s, as adjectival form of contumacy, which had been around (as contumacie) since the last 12th century, from Latin contumācia, from contumāx, unyielding, stubborn, of uncertain etymology.
---L.
