'Tis most vexing to issue forth in antique GODWOTTERY!

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GODWOTTERY (noun)

1. Elaborate gardening
2. The use of archaic language

"Verily, I say, 'tis most vexing to issue forth in antique jottings, as if from the honeyed pen of Shakespeare. One feels like an artless fly-bitten coxcomb! Or a lumpish doghearted wagtail! Or even an impertinent flap-mouthed dewberry! Fie on it! Methinks I must leave off with this gleeking, sheep-biting godwottery! Art thou in agreement?" (TWITO, page 62)