Daily Word Quiz LET THE MULES OUT a) to reveal the facts after withholding them for some time b) to celebrate wildly c) to make an embarrassing mistake d) to regard the course of events with unconcern Answer below. Today's Featured Word DEFAMOUS ADJ. 1. infamous, disgraceful, dishonourable ...1426 obs. 2. of speech or writing: defamatory, slanderous, calumnious ...1557 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Anglo-French deffamous, Old French type deffameux from diffame defame FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1426 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...ther is no sinne so fowl, so defamowse, that is put ther inne..." From: The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode Translated by: John Lydgate, 1426 Daily Word Quiz Answer LET THE MULES OUT c) to make an embarrassing mistake ...1954 Amer. dial.
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