Daily Word Quiz
Today's Featured Word SLOW-BELLY NOUN a lazy, idle, or indolent person; a sluggard, a laggard ...1607 ETYMOLOGY from slow (adj.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1607 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...The maintenance of a sort of slow-bellies, whose seruice to Gods church was altogether vnprofitable" From: A Defence of the Ministers Reasons for Refusall of Subscription to the Booke of Common Prayer By: Samuel Hieron, 1607 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 Daily Word Quiz Answer
d) HACK-STOCK a chopping-block ...a1500 obs.
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