Welcome to another mind-bending episode of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Keep your brain fit for a lifetime with lifelong learning. Now let's get warmed up with the Word of the Week:
Bombilation: [bahm-buh-lay-shun] (noun) a buzzing, droning or humming sound. This word sounds as if it should be much more severe than the definition strictly allows; if you had said you were kept awake by bombilation all night, it seems that rubble and sirens would be expected, not just somebody's overbassed car or a neighbor's TV. -- "More Weird and Wonderful Words", Erin McKean, ed., Oxford University Press, 2003.
Example: The bombilation of the plane passing overhead broke the silence of the lazy summer afternoon.
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