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Month: March 2021

Foist: Put not your foists upon me; I shall scent them

March 31, 2021May 25, 2023 adminWord of the Day

MW No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change,Thy pyramids built up with newer mightTo me are nothing novel, nothing strange,They are but dressings Of a former sight:Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire,What thou dost foist…

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Queach

March 31, 2021April 1, 2021 adminTranslation, Word of the Day

One of the earliest examples of usage cited in the OED is in Golding’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 2v Their houses were the thyckes, And bushie queaches. from “queach,…

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The many kinds of Alacrity

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW Alacrity in Joyce and Burton. The rogues slighted me into the river with as little remorse as they would have drown’d a blind bitch’s puppies, fifteen i’ th’ litter; and you may know by my size that I have…

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Diffident

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW Solitariness. Most part they are, as Plater notes, desides, taciturni, aegre impulsi, nec nisi coacti procedunt, &c. they will scarce be compelled to do that which concerns them, though it be for their good, so diffident, so dull, of…

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Exodus

March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW The trees are white with dust, that o’er their sleepWave their broad curtains in the south-wind’s breath,While underneath such leafy tents they keepThe long, mysterious Exodus of Death. Author and Text In a psychological point of view, it is…

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Words of the day: March 18 – March 26, 2021 Fiscal, Prevaricate, Equinox, Inimitable, Quash, Sesquipedalian

March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 adminWord of the Day

Fiscal Why, Excellency, we and his Highness hereWould settle the matter as sufficientlyAs ever will Advocate This and Fiscal ThatAnd Judge the Other, with even–a word and a wink–We well know who for ultimate arbiter.Let us beware o’ the basset-table–lestWe…

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Blarney

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW All the better. He could have kicked himself for wanting to help mankind, join in revolutions or reforms or any of that stuff. And he kicked himself still harder thinking of his frantic struggles with the “soul” and the…

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Replete

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,Dawdling away their wat’ry noon)Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,Each secret fishy hope or fear.Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear,For how…

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Circumlocution and Circumlucency

March 15, 2021April 28, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW Circumlucency — not recorded in the OED or Merriam-Webster: The lagoon was calm, as we landed; not a breath stirred the plumes of the trees; and as we entered the voiceless shades, lifting his hand, Babbalanja whispered:–“This silence is…

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Attitudinize

March 14, 2021March 14, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW An unusual word: for each of the two main senses of the word (of striking an attitude and of practising affected and self-conscious deportment) the OED cites only three examples. Interestingly, this word was “frequently” used–on three occasions–by Henry…

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