Short hand for glamorous camping (you see what they did there?) If, like most of the women (and the odd man) in our office, you need your duvet, cafetiere or Cath Kidston hamper when sleeping under canvas, then you’re a glamper. (Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it!)

Examples:

We hired a yurt at Glastonbury this year – it’s the ultimate in glamping!

Or

Look at those two with their shabby-chic tent, laptops and top-to-toe Boden, they’re such glampers.

Pettifogger – someone who argues over something petty or trivial, or who is excessively concerned with unimportant detail.
What a lovely word.

Example:
‘Stop being such a terrible pettifogger and focus on the main points of the case!’
There’s a few people not a million miles away that this would apply to…

The urban dictionary actually gives a few definitions.

1) A person down on his/her luck
2) A grumpy simpleton
3) Someone who sits in the corner of parties angrily eyeing guests, or pervertedly leering at the young female guests
4) Someone who sits in the corner at a party POKING other guests as they walk by… usually with a drink in their hands.

‘Oh my goodness, what a humdudgeon you’ve met there.’

‘That hundudgeon really rubs me up the wrong way.’

This month’s word was chosen purely because we love its feel of old fashioned, fusty bookishness: Betwixt (adverb or proposition) – meaning ‘between’

“Betwixt” and “between” have similar origins: they both come from a combination of the prefix ‘be-’ and an Old English root meaning ‘two’. Both words appeared before the 12th century, but the use of betwixt dropped off considerably toward the end of the 1600s.

It survived in the phrase “betwixt and between” (neither one thing nor the other), but nowadays betwixt is uncommon. It’s still widely understood, though, and this writer, for one, will be making a conscious effort to reintroduce it into common parlance. Until next month’s word, at least.

hebetude (heb-uh-tude), noun.
It means lethargy or dullness.

Example:
Pull yourself together Gregory and shake off these chains of sloth and hebetude.