Daily Word Quiz
HURKLE-DURKLE a) to smell unpleasantly; to stink b) to become lively, active, or cheerful c) to have sexual intercourse d) to lie in bed or lounge about when one should be up and about Answer below. Today's Featured Word: EMBLUSTRICATE VERB to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex ...a1693 obs. ETYMOLOGY whimsically formed to render the equally fantastic French word emburelucoquer to trouble, to blunder, or pester the mind with FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1693 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...all the autonomatic metagrobolism of the Romish church, when tottering and emblustricated with the Gibble Gabble Gibberish of this odious Error and heresy..." From: The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais By: Thomas Urquhart, a1693 Daily Word Quiz Answer HURKLE-DURKLE d) to lie in bed or lounge about when one should be up and about ...19th-Cent. Sc.
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