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prettygoodwordnovercal (noh-VUR-kuhl) - adj., (rare) of, relating to, or characteristic of a stepmother.
Always pretty recondite, and even more so now. Adopted around 1620 from Latin novercālis, from noverca, stepmother, which uses the PIE root *newo- that also gives us new and novice -- so, essentially, "she who is new."
---L.
Always pretty recondite, and even more so now. Adopted around 1620 from Latin novercālis, from noverca, stepmother, which uses the PIE root *newo- that also gives us new and novice -- so, essentially, "she who is new."
---L.
