Daily Word Quiz
WINTER APPLE a) a potato b) a pine cone c) a snowball d) a snowflake Answer below. Today's Featured Word: GESTIENT ADJ. restlessly excited, nervously agitated ...1644 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin gestientem, pres. pple. of gestire to be excited FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1644 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...all juvenile gestient pompe and ostentation laid aside, by a submisse Action ..." From: Chirologia Or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures thereof By: John Bulwer, 1644 Daily Word Quiz Answer WINTER APPLE c) a snowball ...B1900 Eng. dial.
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