Daily Word Quiz
TWIDDLEPOOP a) an incompetent fool; a stupid, blundering person b) a twinkle or sparkle c) an effeminate-looking fellow d) the posteriors, the buttock Answer below. Today's Featured Word: DROLLERICAL ADJ. comical, humorous ...1656 nonce word ETYMOLOGY from drollery + -ical, after comical FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1656 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...This Drollericall Poem mightily augmented our Champions mirth, who (as the fashion is for most great ones) was ever delighted with what his capacity most condemn'd" From: Don Zara del Fogo; A Mock-Romance 'Written originally in the Brittish tongue, and made English by a person of much honor, Basilius Musophilus; with a marginall comment, expounding the hard things of the history.' By: Samuel Holland, 1656 Daily Word Quiz Answer TWIDDLEPOOP c) an effeminate-looking fellow
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