ELTWeekly Issue #23, Word of the week: gadzookery

gadzookery • gad-ZOO-kuh-ree • noun

British : the use of archaisms (as in a historical novel)

Example Sentence:

Bridget’s novel, set in colonial Virginia, features an engaging and cohesive plot, but the dialogue contains so much gadzookery that it doesn’t sound realistic.

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