Lost Word Of The Day (51)

Summer is here, whether you use the meteorological or astronomical seasonal calendar, and the hedgerows near Blogger Towers are full of long trailing brambles. I am hoping that August will see them provide us foragers with a bumper crop of blackberries.

If I were around in the 18th century I might have been moved to observe that the bushes were particularly veprecose, an adjective, now sadly fallen out of fashion, meaning full of brambles. Its origin is the Latin noun, vepres, which meant bramble bush.

If you are careful, veprecosity is good.