Daily Word Quiz
BISSY a) not difficult, easy b) pliable, yielding, flexible c) bowing the neck, cringing d) cross, easily provoked to anger Answer below. Today's Featured Word: AGGRUDGE also AGRUDGE VERB to grumble, to complain, to express dissatisfaction or annoyance ...1470 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from ag- + grudge FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1470 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...and affection as evar we had, aggrudgynge of the greate enormyties and inordinate ympositions, contrary to law..." From: Original Letters By: Henry Ellis, 1827 Letter XLII: The Duke of Clarence and the Earl of Warwick, from France, to the Commons of England, 1470 Daily Word Quiz Answer BISSY d) cross, ill-tempered, angry; easily provoked to anger, excitable ...1887 Sc.
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