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      • Reverse Dictionary DISABILITY - DISCOVERY
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      • Reverse Dictionary DO - DOLTISH
      • Reverse Dictionary DOMESTIC - DRAGONFLY
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      • Reverse Dictionary EXACERBATE - EXCELLENTLY
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      • Reverse Dictionary FOOD - FOOD POISONING
      • Reverse Dictionary FOOL - FOOLISHNESS
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      • Reverse Dictionary HONEST - HORROR-STRUCK
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      • Reverse Dictionary IMBECILE - IMPERVIOUS
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      • Reverse Dictionary. LIBEL - LION
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      • Reverse Dictionary MALL - MARMOT
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      • Reverse Dictionary MENTAL - MILDNESS
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      • Reverse Dictionary MONEY - MONEY ORDER
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LIMBERHAM

28/2/2018

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UBERATE
a) to make plentiful; to abound
b) to feel dread or apprehension
c) to make hideous or repulsive; to disfigure
d) to wail or lament loudly

Answer below.
 
 Today's Featured Word:
LIMBERHAM

 
NOUN
1. one who has 'limber hams', a supple-jointed person;
fig. a servile flatterer; an obsequious person ...1689 obs.
2. an irresolute or vacillating person ...a1704 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from limber (adj.) + ham
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1689 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...I profess I would bow and cringe as well as any
Ecclesiastical Limber-ham of them all..."
From: The Ceremony-Monger, His Character
By: Edmund Hickeringill
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
UBERATE a) to make plentiful; to abound ...1623 obs.

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EMBLUSTRICATE

27/2/2018

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HURKLE-DURKLE
a) to smell unpleasantly; to stink
b) to become lively, active, or cheerful
c) to have sexual intercourse
d) to lie in bed or lounge about when one should be up and about
 
Answer below.
 
Today's Featured Word: EMBLUSTRICATE
 
VERB
to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex ...a1693 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
whimsically formed to render the equally fantastic French word
emburelucoquer to trouble, to blunder, or pester the mind with
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1693 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...all the autonomatic metagrobolism of the Romish church,
when tottering and emblustricated with the Gibble Gabble Gibberish
of this odious Error and heresy..."
 From: The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais
By: Thomas Urquhart, a1693
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
HURKLE-DURKLE d) to lie in bed or lounge about
​when one should be up and about ...19th-Cent. Sc.

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VERBOSIOUS

26/2/2018

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SOW DRAGON'S TEETH
a) to cause contention; to stir up trouble, strife, or war
b) to sow one's wild oats, to commit youthful excesses
c) to woo a person
d) to say something important and true
 
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Today's Featured Word: VERBOSIOUS
 
ADJ.
verbose, long-winded ...1676 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from verbose + -ocious
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1676 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...for among all the Verbosious Graecians there is not one compleat
Tract upon this Subject only."
From: King Solomon's Portraiture of Old Age
By: John Smith, 1676
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
SOW DRAGON'S TEETH
​a) to cause contention; to stir up trouble, strife, or war ...1850
 
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FOPPERLY

25/2/2018

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AMARICATE
a) to teach, to tutor
b) to leave, to get out
c) to irritate, to embitter
d) to get drunk
 
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 Today's Featured Word: FOPPERLY
 
ADJ.
silly, foolish ...1599 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from fopper a foolish person + -ly
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1599 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...their fopperly god is not so good as a red herring."
From: Nashes Lenten Stuffe
By: Thomas Nashe, 1599

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
AMARICATE c) to irritate, to embitter ...1651 obs. rare

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DROLLERICAL

22/2/2018

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TWIDDLEPOOP
a) an incompetent fool; a stupid, blundering person
b) a twinkle or sparkle
c) an effeminate-looking fellow
d) the posteriors, the buttock
 
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Today's Featured Word: DROLLERICAL
 
ADJ.
comical, humorous ...1656 nonce word
 
ETYMOLOGY
from drollery + -ical, after comical
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...This Drollericall Poem mightily augmented our Champions mirth,
who (as the fashion is for most great ones) was ever delighted
with what his capacity most condemn'd"
From: Don Zara del Fogo; A Mock-Romance
'Written originally in the Brittish tongue, and made English by a person
of much honor, Basilius Musophilus; with a marginall comment,
expounding the hard things of the history.'
By: Samuel Holland, 1656
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
TWIDDLEPOOP c) an effeminate-looking fellow
 
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INCOGNITE

21/2/2018

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PELLICULATION
a) an impression of the sole of the foot; a footprint
b) a deceiving with fair words; deception
c) dependence; reliance
d) a fuss, much ado over nothing
 
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Today's Featured Word: INCOGNITE
 
ADJ.
unknown, strange, unfamiliar ...1609 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin incognitus unknown,
from in- + cognitus, pa. pple. of cognoscere to get to know
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1609 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...All which to me are problematique mines.
Obsurde inigmaes, and to my studies Incognite Language"
From: Everie Woman in Her Humor
By: Anonymous
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
PELLICULATION b) a deceiving with fair words; deception ...B1900

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BOBADILIAN

20/2/2018

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FLAPADOSHA
a) loose, flapping
b) conceited, arrogant
c) slightly intoxicated
d) showy, eccentric
 
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Today's Featured Word: BOBADILIAN
 
ADJ.
blustering, boasting, swaggering ...1803
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Bobadil, the name of a thrasonical character in Ben Jonson's
Every Man in His Humour, used to designate a blustering braggart
who pretends to prowess
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1803 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...The Bobadilian independence is often accompanied
by Bobadilian terrors."
 From: The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Art. XII - Leopold; or, the Bastard
By: Tobias Smollett, 1803
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
FLAPADOSHA d) showy, eccentric ...19C Eng. dial.

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ROMANICAL

19/2/2018

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ECKLE-FECKLE
a) apparent to the eye; evident, obvious
b) cheerful, merry, gay
c) astonishing, amazing
d) deadly, fatal, ruinous, hurtful
 
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Today's Featured Word: ROMANICAL
 
ADJ.
1. Roman Catholic ...1663 obs.
2. characterized by romance, romantic ...1665 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
def. 1. from Roman (adj.)
def. 2. from roman, romance
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1663 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...that if any part, much more if any parts, great substantial parts
of Religion brought into the Land with the first news of Christianity
be once rejected (as they are now amongst us) as Romish or
Romanical, and that rejection or Reformation be permitted..."
 From: A Vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat Lux
By: John Owen, 1663

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Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
ECKLE-FECKLE b) cheerful, merry, gay ...1825 Sc.

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WORD OF THE DAY: NICKETY-NOCK

18/2/2018

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NICKETY-NOCK
 
ADVERB
with a clicking and knocking sound ...1812
 
ETYMOLOGY
imitative
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1812 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock,
And his head, as he tumbled, went nickety-nock,
Like a pebble in Carisbrook well."
From: Rejected Addresses:
Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum
By: James & Horace Smith, 1812
 

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TEATABELLICALLY

15/2/2018

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NESCIENT
a) ignorant, destitute of knowledge
b) churlish, miserly
c) neat, trim, well-dressed
d) conceited, self-important
 
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 Today's Featured Word: TEATABELLICALLY
 
ADVERB
at the tea-table, in familiar conversation at tea
...1768 nonce word obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from tea-table
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1768 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...when I was a stripling the vast Pacific Ocean, commonly, yea,
vulgarly, not to say, news-paperrically, nor yet, teatabellically,
and moreover, among the speciallest species of ale-drinking..."
 From: The Light of Nature Pursued
By: Abraham Tucker, 1768
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
NESCIENT a) ignorant, destitute of knowledge ...1626
 
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MEDICIAN

14/2/2018

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DELITIGATE
a) to treat with care and attention
b) to soothe, to mollify, to appease
c) to scold or chide vehemently
d) to murmur, to mutter
 
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Today's Featured Word: MEDICIAN
 
NOUN
a physician ...1597 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin medicus physician + -ian
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1597 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...scho is altogiddir conswmit away; and na mediciane nor phisitian
that will tak on hand to cure, nor knawis the nature of hir diseace."
From: The Miscellany of the Spalding Club (1841-52)
Trials for Witchcraft
Dittay Against Meriorie Mutche, 1597
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
DELITIGATE c) to scold or chide vehemently ...1623 obs. rare

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STUPROUS

13/2/2018

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GAMALIAN
a) a coward
b) the leg of a horse
c) a sprite that plays pranks at night
d) a chameleon
 
Answer below.
 
 Today's Featured Word: STUPROUS
 
ADJ.
unchaste, sexually compliant; given to adultery or whoredom,
adulterous, whorish ...1603 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin stuprosus, from stuprum debauchery, lewdness, violation
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1603 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Who seeing himselfe engaged in so stuprous a necessitie,
resolved vpon an haughtie enterprize."
From: Michel de Montaigne's Essayes,
or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses
Translated By: John Florio, 1603
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
GAMALIAN d) a chameleon ...c1440 obs.
 
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VERIDICAL

12/2/2018

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WAG-FEATHER
a) one who agitates or stirs
b) a silly swaggerer; a swaggering coxcomb
c) a piece of mischievous jesting; a practical joke
d) a cowardly person
 
Answer below.
  
Today's Featured Word: VERIDICAL
 
ADJ.
1. speaking, telling, or relating the truth; truthful, veracious ...1653
2. of hallucinations, phantasms, etc.: coincident with,
corresponding to, or representing real events or persons ...1884
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin veridicus from verum truth + dic- stem of dicere to speak + -al
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1653 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...that I had now a Bottle of the best Wine that ever those drank
who shall read this so veridical History!"
From: The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais
By: Thomas Urquhart, 1653
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
WAG-FEATHER
​b) a silly swaggerer; a swaggering coxcomb ...1611 obs.

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POLLENT

11/2/2018

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JUZZLED
a) fatigued, jaded
b) angry, annoyed
c) satisfied, happy
d) rotted away
 
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 Today's Featured Word: POLLENT
 
ADJ.
powerful, strong, mighty ...1869 rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pollentem pr. pple. of pollere to be strong
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1869 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...An unimportant sword and blunderbuss,
Against a foe, pollent in potency."
From: The Ring and the Book
By: Robert Browning, 1869
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
JUZZLED d) rotted away ...B1900 Eng. dial.

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GILBERT

8/2/2018

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MALLERAG
a) to smash; to defeat
b) to abuse, to scold
c) to depart quickly
d) to stun with a blow, to daze, to injure
 
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 Today's Featured Word: GILBERT
 
NOUN
a proper name, used as the appellation of a male cat;
usually shortened to 'Gib' ...c1480 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from the proper name
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1480 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Scho clam sa hie, that Gilbert mycht not get hir."
 
From: The Morall Fabillis of Esope
The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous and the Burges Mous
By: Robert Henryson, c1480
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
MALLERAG b) to abuse, to scold ...B1900 Eng. dial.

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ORP

8/2/2018

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CAPERATE
a) to frown
b) to claw or scratch with the hand or nails
c) to defecate
d) to castrate
 
Answer below.
  
Today's Featured Word: ORP
 
NOUN
a grouse, a complaint ...1957 Sc.
 
VERB
1. to fret, to grumble, to murmur discontentedly,
to complain in a peevish, nagging manner ...1725 Sc.
2. to complain from ill health, to be constantly ailing and sickly,
not to thrive, to shrink, to shrivel ...1820 Sc.
 
ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1725 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Like dawted wean that tarries at its meat,
That for some feckless whim will orp and greet"
From: The Gentle Shepherd
By: Allan Ramsay, 1725
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
CAPERATE a) to frown ...1623 obs.
 
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CONSIMILITY

6/2/2018

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BLIKE 
a) to close the eyes in sleep
b) to confound or stump someone
c) to shine, to glisten, to glitter
d) to ignore, to evade
 
Answer below.
  
Today's Featured Word: CONSIMILITY
 
NOUN
resemblance, mutual likeness, similarity ...1680 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin consimilis alike, very similar
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1680 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...their consimility of disposition, there was a
very conjunct friendship between..."
 
From: Letters Written by Eminent Persons
​in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
By: John Aubrey, 1680
 
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
BLIKE c) to shine, to glisten, to glitter ...a1000 obs.

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METHEFUL

5/2/2018

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HELLUOUS
a) gluttonous
b) pompous, pretentious
c) hot
d) artful, cunning, sly
 
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 Today's Featured Word: METHEFUL
 
ADJ.
1. restrained, moderate; gentle, mild ...c1000 obs.
2. weary, exhausted ...a1300 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
1. Old English mæþfull showing respect to others, courteous, humane
2. from Old English méðe weary, exhausted + -ful
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1000 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...humanus mæþfull odde meniselic"
From: Aelfrics Grammar, c1000
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
HELLUOUS a) gluttonous ...1641 obs.

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DULCORATE

4/2/2018

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SITICULOUS 
a) of a look, glance, etc.: oblique, sidelong
b) very thirsty, very dry
c) swift, active
d) vile; disgusting
 
Answer below.
  
Today's Featured Word: DULCORATE
 
ADJ.
endowed with sweetness; sweet; pleasant ...1501 obs. rare
 
VERB
to sweeten; to free from acridity ...1566 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dulcoratus pa. pple. of dulcorare to sweeten
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1501 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...The ladyis song in voices dulcorait"
From: The Palice of Honour
By: Gawin Douglas, 1501

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Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
SITICULOUS  b) very thirsty, very dry ...1620 obs.

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WITH A WET FINGER

1/2/2018

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QUINKLE 
a) of a light: to go out
b) to make a sound like that of boiling liquid
c) to live as a tramp, travelling the country
d) in snowboarding: to hit the snow hard
 
Answer below.
 
Today's Featured Phrase: WITH A WET FINGER
 
ADVERB
1. easily, with little effort, without difficulty ...1542 obs.
2. readily, without hesitation, promptly ...1583 obs.
3. slightly, superficially ...1586 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps from the practice of wetting the first or second finger on
one's tongue in order to facilitate turning over the pages of a book,
or to rub out writing on a slate
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1542 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"... or to any good matier in the booke conteined, readie waye
and recourse maye with a weat fynger easily bee found out."
 
From: Apophthegmes, That is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentencious Saiynges, of certain Emperours, Kynges, Capitaines, Philosophiers and Oratours
Compiled in Latin by: Erasmus of Roterodame
Translated into English by:  Nicolas Udall
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
QUINKLE a) of a light: to go out ...1513 Scot. obs. rare

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