Daily Word Quiz
TIDDLYWINKY a) tipsy, fuddled by drink b) flighty, giddy c) tiny, insignificant d) satisfactory, first-class, excellent Answer below. Today's Featured Word EMINOUSLY ADVERB remotely, distantly ...1657 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin eminus at a distance + -ous + -ly FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1657 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...which rolling up and down the fields, eminously represents a running hare..." From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick Composed by the Illustrious Renodæus, Chief Physician to the Monarch of France, and now Englished and Revised, By: Richard Tomlinson of London, Apothecary, 1657 Daily Word Quiz Answer TIDDLYWINKY c) tiny, insignificant ...1901 Eng. dial.
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