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Tuesday, 2005-04-05

Dict2go

Matt has released dict2go, a Python for Series 60 app that’s an interface to the dict protocol. This means that you can easily lookup weird words on the hoof.

As usual when reading Patrick O’Brian, I encountered a word I didn’t know — mammothrept. Having some free time, I used dict2go to look it up:

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

mammothrept \mam"mo*thrept\ (m[a^]m"m[-o]*thr[e^]pt), n. [Gr.
   mammo`qreptos; ma`mma grandmother + tre`pein to nourish.]
   A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [R.]
   [1913 Webster]
   O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

Truly cool. Thanks, Matt!

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