Sunday Rest: grumous. Word Not To Use Today.

Do not use the word grumous.

Just don't, okay?

For one reason, no one will understand it, and, for another, it sounds like something that gives you chronic stomach-ache (and, as a matter of fact, it sometimes is).

But there's yet another reason not to use this word, and it is by far the most important, and that is that you don't understand it, either.

Just imagine a world where we only used words we understood.

It would be a lot quieter and more peaceful, wouldn't it.

Word Not To Use Today: grumous. This word is usually used of plants and in anatomy. In plants it describes something with a granular texture, like the roots of some plants. In anatomy it often describes the reaction of the body to a wound. The word comes from the grume, a clot of blood, from the Latin grumus, a little heap. Grumous can also be used to describe something with a porridge-like texture, like...er...porridge. 

But that would put people off their breakfast, so I wouldn't.