Sunday Rest: tweakment. Word Not To Use Today.

A tweakment is a very minor procedure. It's not like plastic surgery or anything like that. Nothing scary or permanent. 

Probably.

A tweakment will make you look a few years younger, that's all. You can inject botulin poison into your forehead to smooth away frown lines, or inject hyaluronic acid into your saggier bits to make them plump. You can have the top layers of your skin dissolved using phenol (and as long as you have your blood pressure and heart monitored during the procedure you probably won't dangerously affect your heart and kidneys).

Or you could go for dermaplaning, which involves someone using a very sharp knife to remove hair (no, no, it's much more glamorous and expensive than shaving).

Well, I mean, what could go wrong?

Tweakment.

I mean, you can tell it's completely harmless by the name, can't you?

Word Not To Use Today: tweakment. This word is a clever combination of tweak and treatment. The Old English form of tweak was twiccian, to pluck. Treatment, worryingly, comes from the Latin trahere, to drag.