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jentacular
jentacular
English
Adjective
jentacular (comparative more jentacular, superlative most jentacular)
- Of or pertaining to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately on getting up.
- I took a post-jentacular walk to settle my stomach.
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- “jentacular” in James Stormonth, Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, William Blackwood and Sons (1879), page 755: “jentacular, a. jĕn-tăk-ūl-ėr (L. jentaculum, a breakfast taken immediately on getting up), applied to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately on getting up: pre-jentacular, applied to what is done early in the morning, as taking a breakfast before getting up.”