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Podcast: Word of the Day
Episode: Haverel
Description: Haverel is a noun that refers to a half-wit.
Coming directly from Scottish, our word of the day is related to verb ‘haver’ which means ‘to hem and haw.’ Here’s an example of haverel in use:
I was so confused by the instructions given to me that I must have come across like a haverel with all that fumbling and bumbling of my words.