Lost Word Of The Day (46)

As someone who has assumed the role of grandparent, I am fighting hard to avoid being consumed by tecnolatry, a noun now fallen into obscurity which was used to describe the worship or idolising of children and not, as might seem at first blush, an addiction to modern technology.

A sure-fire way of keeping in their good books, now rather frowned upon because of concerns about the consumption of sugar and dental health, was a trip to the tragematopolist, an obsolete word used to describe a seller of sweets. Sad, but specialist tragematopolists seem to be a thing of the past. O tempora, o mores.