Jentacular

Jentacular

Looking for a word to celebrate the dawning of a new day, to laud the dawn chorus or to praise your porridge. Then, dear reader, look no further than jentacular, which refers to the early morning, something that happens immediately after rising, or of or pertaining to breakfast.

Etymology: from Latin ientaculum, a breakfast taken immediately on getting up.

“The bony boys shivered in the cold morning air and used their small fists to rub sleep from their eyes. ‘Give thanks for this jentacular feast, you ungrateful brutes’, bellowed Master Bartholomew, as they lined up to get their gruel.”

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