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Thursday, June 23, 2005

good word

Posted by on June 23 at 11:13 AM

Courtesy of Christopher DeLaurenti:
tatterdemalion (tat·ter·de·mal·ion)
adj: raggedly dressed and unkempt
n: somebody wearing ragged clothes
Christopher used it to describe “dementedly tatterdemalion stuffed rabbits”; I’m naming the mean-spirited, one-legged hobo who hangs out on my street “the tatterdemalion.”