Pointless words 2

aprosdoketon: A figure of speech where an expected word in an idiom is replaced unexpectedly by an unusual one.

ctenophile: a lover of combs.

lexeme: The abstract unit of vocabulary, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms from the same lemma.

Some from the ‘word of the day I received…

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