Daily Word Quiz
KACK a) a small child b) a saddle, especially an old or ill-fitting one c) excrement d) all the above Answer below. Today's Featured Word: NIPCHEESE ADJ. mean, miserly, niggardly ...1819 NOUN 1. a ship's purser ...1785 sl. obs. 2. a mean or miserly person; a parsimonious, covetous person; a skinflint ...1825 ETYMOLOGY from nip (vb.) to steal, to snatch + cheese 'one who steals the cheese' FIRST DOCUMENTED USE Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785 'Nip cheese, a nick name for the purser of a ship' EXAMPLE (for adj.) "...who adopt this nip-cheese, candle-end saving, pebble-peeling, flea-skinning principle." From: Lady Chesterfield's Letters to Her Daughter By: George Augustus Sala, 1860 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891 • A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908 • The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888 • Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955 • The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 Daily Word Quiz Answer KACK d) all the above - a small child ...1895 Amer. dial. - a saddle ...1936 Amer. dial. - excrement ...1972 Aust. sl.
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