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prettygoodwordcheville (shuh-VEE) - n., a word or phrase, often meaningless, whose only purpose is to fill a metrical gap in a line of verse or to make a sentence balanced.
Also, the tuning peg of a string in a musical instrument, but that's not important right now. Adopted in the early 1880s from French, where it was a metaphoric use of the original meaning, a plug or peg, from Latin clāvicula, diminutive of clāvis, key.
---L.
Also, the tuning peg of a string in a musical instrument, but that's not important right now. Adopted in the early 1880s from French, where it was a metaphoric use of the original meaning, a plug or peg, from Latin clāvicula, diminutive of clāvis, key.
---L.
