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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 13

    Blimey! Apparently HH has flown past its 25,000th tweet... Thanks everyone for following along through 25,000 words—here’s to 25,000 more! X

    7 replies 21 retweets 209 likes
  2. 1 hour ago

    A kitchen that is MEAT-RIFE is full of food or provisions.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    In case you missed it... Today’s Word of the Day: DELIRANCY (n.) frenzy, madness

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  4. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    This is so perfect

    SCANDAL-BROTH was 18th century slang for tea.
    1 reply 17 retweets 43 likes
  5. 5 hours ago

    The expression ‘‘That’s Exeter,’ said the old woman when she saw Crediton’ means to think your work is done then find more that needs doing.

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  6. 5 hours ago

    Someone who is MEEDLESS is restlessly unruly.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    SCANDAL-BROTH was 18th century slang for tea.

    6 replies 129 retweets 199 likes
  8. 6 hours ago

    ‘A king’s cheese goes half away in parings’ is a 19thC proverb warning that a lavish, pampered lifestyle is often also heedlessly wasteful.

    3 replies 28 retweets 45 likes
  9. 7 hours ago

    A LATRINOGRAM is a baseless rumour or piece of gossip.

    3 replies 27 retweets 52 likes
  10. 9 hours ago

    A PIFFLER is someone who talks nonsense.

    2 replies 30 retweets 58 likes
  11. 11 hours ago

    To DELIRE is to let your mind wander.

    2 replies 15 retweets 47 likes
  12. 12 hours ago

    A PANSOPHIST is someone who possesses or claims to possess universal knowledge.

    2 replies 24 retweets 56 likes
  13. Retweeted
    Mar 13

    CAINOTOPHOBIA is the fear of change.

    3 replies 56 retweets 148 likes
  14. Retweeted
    Jul 17

    The earliest record of RYE BREAD in the English language is as the surname of a man named ‘Adam Rybred’ in 1326.

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  15. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    I wanna be a muffin-walloper!

    In Victorian slang, MUFFIN-WALLOPERS were old women who would meet up to gossip over cups of tea and cakes.
    10 replies 28 retweets 98 likes
  16. Retweeted
    Jul 16

    Exclamation points were once called "points of admiration". (h/t .)

    14 replies 114 retweets 343 likes
  17. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    🌤️ And in a reversal of fortune, 'All their swans turn to geese.'

    ‘All their geese are swans’ is a 17th century expression implying that everything that somebody says is wildly exaggerated or overblown.
    7 retweets 19 likes
  18. 15 hours ago

    To DISPALATE something is to find it unpleasant.

    1 reply 9 retweets 22 likes
  19. 15 hours ago

    Word of the Day: DELIRANCY (n.) frenzy, madness

    11 retweets 31 likes
  20. 16 hours ago

    A HEART-SCALD is a bitter disappointment.

    4 replies 41 retweets 109 likes
  21. 19 hours ago

    To be DISPARADISED is to fall from happiness into misery.

    1 reply 36 retweets 75 likes

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