apothecary's Latin en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, obsolete, uncountable) barbarous Latin; badly-spoken Latin.
As this bit of apothecary's Latin was quoted to the town-clerk at a corporation dinner, and was by him translated to the mayor to mean that the municipal body had not a leg to stand upon, it gave very serious offence indeed.
1842, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 333:
Relateds
talk like an apothecary · greengrocer's apostrophe · pig Latin