Entry: post-prandial (adj.)
In context: "...Schtitt savoring a post-prandial pipe..."
Definition: Done, made, taken, happening, etc., in the period after a meal.
Other: There are 308 words in Scrabble that take post- as a prefix. I won't make you trudge through them all, but are a few that stood out:
POSTABORTION
POSTACCIDENT
POSTAMPUTATION
POSTAPOCALYPTIC
POSTBOURGEOIS
POSTCAPITALIST
POSTCARDLIKE
POSTCONSONANTAL
POSTCOPULATORY
POSTEMBRYONAL
POSTERUPTIVE
POSTHEMORRHAGIC
POSTHOLOCAUST
POSTLIBERATION
POSTPUNK
POSTWORKSHOP
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 80
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
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