Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to breakfast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately on getting up.
Etymologies
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From Latin ientaculum ("a breakfast taken immediately on getting up") and English -ar.
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Examples
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He rode his favourite hobby of gardening, and took his regular 'ante-jentacular' and 'post-prandial' walks, and played battledore and shuttlecock in the intervals of codification.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868
reesetee commented on the word jentacular
pertaining to breakfast (obsolete)
March 6, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word jentacular
Rats! THIS should have been my username.
April 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word jentacular
Ha! I hadn't even looked at the word that way! Funny!
Well, you could still go with jentastic, right?
April 28, 2007
burntsox commented on the word jentacular
this was on AWAD last week!
November 2, 2007
reesetee commented on the word jentacular
Burntsox, are you asking me or jennarenn? I get my words from all over creation.
:-)
November 2, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word jentacular
I get my words from all over Wordie. :)
November 2, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word jentacular
JM mentions gentle jentacular repasts – fast and broken?
September 7, 2009
michaelt42 commented on the word jentacular
Wordnik's Word of the Day today, 1st December 2011. It arrived on my computer at 0946, timed to perfection for those of us that live in the UK.
December 1, 2011