Friday, 12 December 2014

Spoorious

Spoorious: adjective. Not only being false or fake, pretending to be what it is not, but also extremely impoverished and poor. Essentially this was an example of the highest degree of Victorian insults. There exists one recorded case of its usage and that is by Queen Victoria, when she discovered that Sherlock Holmes was only a fictional character in a story. She used the word spoorious to refer to Doctor Watson and the impoverished part referred to his character development and mental capacity.

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