Daily Word Quiz
IZEY-TIZEY a) zigzag, winding, crooked b) very small, tiny c) snappy, angry, cross d) uncertain, wavering, undecided Answer below. Today's Featured Word ALPESTRIOUS ADJ. alpine, mountainous ...1623 obs. ETYMOLOGY from French alpestre, or Latin alpestris alpine FIRST DOCUMENTED USE Dictionarie in Spanish and English By: John Minsheu, 1623 "Alpestrious, mountainous, craggie, hillie" EXAMPLE "...(Mount William of the Grampians being merely alpestrious)" From: Regardfully Yours Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller (1860-1875) By: Peter Lang, 1998 Daily Word Quiz Answer IZEY-TIZEY d) uncertain, wavering, undecided ...19th-cent. Eng. dial.
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