Friday 7 February 2014

Andorrer

Andorrer: noun, verb or adjective. Depending on the context, the word Andorrer could mean either (or perhaps even both) of the following things:
1. In the adjectival sense, something Andorrer is more Andorric than another thing, the word Andorric pertaining to the magnitude of how much something pertains to the country of Andorra or its capital Andorra la Vella.
2. However, in the verbal form, to Andorrer is to travel at a speed exactly in between running and walking, which in modern English has been replaced by a far less elaborate word - 'jog.' The more archaic form of this word is actually an amalgam of two Spanish words, which would explain its falling out of common use and public favour after the Spanish-American War. The two words are "andar" (to walk) and "correr" (to run).
3. Lastly, when used as a noun, Andorrer gains the following definition as written down in the Oxford Dictionary of words that have not been used since 1953: "A person who claims he is from the Andes mountains, but in fact is from somewhere much orrrrrr." The assumption that goes along with this definition is that the person who wrote the dictionary wanted to write a clever pun but forgot it and in exasperation only wrote "orrrrrr," leaving us with only a slight hint at what the clever pun could have been.

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