Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as parergon.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.
Etymologies
- Latin parergon, Ancient Greek πάρεργον (parergon); παρά (para, "beside") + ἔργον (ergon, "work"). (Wiktionary)
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Lists
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Verbophile's Words
callidity, evirate, calcitrate, periplus, versipel, dout, putanism, subvene, repristinate, impleach, ferruginate, incrassate and 153 more...
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pavonine something unimportant,incidental or superfluous Nov 6, 2007