Daily Word Quiz
ANCLIFF a) a luncheon b) an outhouse, a privy c) an accident, a disaster d) the ankle Answer below. Today's Featured Word GASTROLATROUS ADJ. belly-worshipping; gluttonous, greedy, voracious ...1694 obs. ETYMOLOGY from French gastrolatre (Cotgrave), from Greek γαστρ(ο)-, γαστήρ belly + -λατρος serving FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1694 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...so great is their Variety in figures, colours, streaks, and inimitable shapes, I protest, the Variety we perceiv'd in the Dresses of the Gastrolatrous Coquillons was not less." From: Pantagruel's Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle Being the fourth and fifth books of The Works of Francis Rabelais Translated By: Peter Motteux, 1694 Daily Word Quiz Answer ANCLIFF d) the ankle ...1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
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