mumpsimus in English
noun
1
a traditional custom or notion adhered to although shown to be unreasonable.
‘A young priest once corrected an old priest for saying mumpsimus instead of sumpsimus in the first prayer after Communion in the Latin Mass. ‘Son,’ said the old priest, ‘I've been saying mumpsimus for thirty years and I'm not going to change my old mumpsimus for your new sumpsimus.'’
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1. Indeed, should I start Blathering about "the old mumpsimus in the corner" you're apt to begin discretely looking around for the mystery person or object