Godwottery
/ɡɒdˈwɒt(ə)ri
/noun [mass noun] British humorous
An affected quality of archaism, excessive fussiness, and sentimentality.
Origin
1930s: from the line ‘A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!’, in T. E. Brown's poem My Garden (1876).
Rhymes
- French tack
- French tarragon
- French tickler
- French tip
- French toast
- French tuning
- French turnip
- French twill
- French twist
- French vermouth
- French walnut
- French Wars of Religion
- French West Africa
- French white
- French willow
- French window
- Frenchwoman
- Frenchy
- frenemy
- frenetic
- frenetically
- freneticism
- frenulum
- frenum
- frenzied