The Oxford English Dictionary...

...(which I own -- the 20-volume version -- have I mentioned that lately?) has launched a Save the Words project to, you know, save words from obscurity.

I adopted PLEGNIC, which means "acting like a blow; striking like a hammer". As in, "If Josh doesn't dial down his obnoxiousness, I'm going to use some seriously plegnic action on him with this yardstick."

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