Hamfatter is a real word and it is really in the dictionary.

It has it’s very own definition and someone took time to record it’s history.

But the funny thing about this word is that nobody is sure where it came from.

Hamfatter just popped up, shoved all of the other words off stage and made us talk about it.

I can picture the staff at Merriam Webster elbowing each other in the halls after staff meetings and giving each other the stink eye in the break-room after hotly debating the word Hamfatter before entering it into their system and giving the word Hamfatter it’s special place in the dictionary.

Think about it, this non-word still manage to make it  into our vocabulary despite the fact nobody knows what it actually means or where it really came from.

Hamfatter is a devilish word,   so from today on I intend on making it a part of my  day to day vocabulary and using it often.

I like devilish words.

RDP Monday: HAMFATTER