I am not making this up. The word of the day on my word-of-the-day app is, indeed, glabrous*. Not only do I love-love-love new words, but check out this word map…
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I am just fascinated by this. So fascianted, in fact, that I just may pull all of my hair out and become glabrous. Won’t that be glamorous? I’ll be a glamorous glabrous gal. I crack myself up…
*Note–Glabrous does not appear to be in the spell-check dictionary. I worried briefly that someone is fooling me into thinking this is a word, so I checked. I’m a little sad that it is pronounced GLAY-brous*. This does not rhyme with glamorous. Aw well.
*Note-Within-a-Note–I had the same disappointment when I found out the word “wizened” is not pronounced WIZ-end. My pronunciation just seems to fit the definition so much better. I’n still recovering from the disappointment.
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“Wounds that involve the glabrous surface of the hand ideally are replaced with skin that possesses the same characteristics as the adjacent skin.” — From Thomas R. Hunt’s 2010 book