Daily Word Quiz
TWISH a) an effeminate person b) a tree with a twisted grain c) an exclamation of contempt or vexation d) a state of agitation or restlessness Answer below. Today's Featured Word: JEOPARDIOUS ADJ. fraught with danger or risk; hazardous, risky, perilous, dangerous ...1502 obs. ETYMOLOGY from jeopardy + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1502 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...O it is ferefull to dy, but parauenture it is more ieoperdyous to lyve lenger." From: A Full Deuout and Gostely Treatyse of the Imytacyon and Folowynge the Blessed Lyfe of Our Moste Mercyfull Sauyour Cryste Translated by: William Atkynson, Thomas à Kempis, 1502 Daily Word Quiz Answer TWISH c) an exclamation of contempt or vexation ...1577 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
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