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Daily Word Quiz TEPEFY a) to make moderately tepid or warm b) to inspire with groundless fear c) to provoke, to torment d) to hinder, to delay Answer below. Today's Featured Word GILLOT NOUN 1. a mare ...c1375 Sc. obs. 2. a loose or wanton woman ...1557 obs. ETYMOLOGY probably a diminutive of the female name 'Gill', 'Gillet', a woman's name FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1375 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...be his nygramancy He walk wirk mony ferly, As to gere a woman apere As scho one wgly gillet were..." From: Legends of the Saints In the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century By: John Barbour, c1375 Daily Word Quiz Answer TEPEFY a) to make moderately tepid or warm ...1656  
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EXTONIOUS a) surprising, unexpected, astonishing b) unpleasant, disgusting; second-rate c) eternal, everlasting d) cheerful or patient in life Answer below. Today's Featured Word NIGRICANT ADJ. black ...1772 ETYMOLOGY from Latin nigricantem blackish, swarthy pres. pple. of nigricare to be blackish from niger black FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1772 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...to dissipate the nigricant squadrons of darkness!" From: The History of the Famous Preacher, Friar Gerund de Campazas Translated from the Spanish By: Thomas Nugent, 1772 Daily Word Quiz Answer EXTONIOUS a) surprising, unexpected, astonishing ...1548 obs. rare Daily Word Quiz
NIBBY-GIBBY a) a busybody; a meddlesome person b) a good-looking person c) the nape of the neck d) a narrow escape; a touch and go Answer below. Today's Featured Word DEHONESTATE VERB to dishonour, to disgrace, to disparage, to slander, to calumniate ...1663 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from ppl. stem of Latin dehonestare to dishonour, to disgrace FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1663 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The excellent and wise pains he took in this particular, no man can dehonestate or reproach." From: A Sermon Preacher at the Funeral of John Bramhall, Late Lord Archbishop of Armagh By: Jeremy Taylor, 1663 Daily Word Quiz Answer NIBBY-GIBBY d) a narrow escape; a touch and go ...1888 Eng. dial. Daily Word Quiz BORIS-NORIS a) lacking manners, boorish, uncouth b) careless, reckless, rash c) nonsensical, rubbishy d) flighty, giddy Answer below. Today's Featured Word RARACHOSE ADJ. rare, unusual ...1676 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from French rare chose, rare thing FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1676 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...he is ravisht in Contemplation how Rarachose it is, to see or hear a material Question in Theology defended in the University-Schools ..." From: Mr. Smirke By: Andrew Marvell, 1676 Daily Word Quiz Answer BORIS-NORIS b) careless, reckless, rash ...1863 Eng. dial.   Daily Word Quiz
WHISKISH a) promiscuous; wanton; immoral b) lively, frisky c) intoxicated with alcohol d) shaky, unstable Answer below. Today's Featured Word CRAINTIVE ADJ. fearful, timorous, timid ...1490 obs. ETYMOLOGY from French craintif, from crainte fear, from pa. pple. of craindre to fear FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1490 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...To the thenne in all affection crayntyue I addresse my thoughte deprecatyue" From: Boke of Eneydos By: William Caxton, 1490 Daily Word Quiz Answer WHISKISH b) lively, frisky ...1599 obs. rare Daily Word Quiz HEFTY-KEFTY a) vigorous, robust b) boorish, rustic c) pregnant d) wavering, undecided Answer below. Today's Featured Word PERCEIVANT ADJ. perceiving, observant, observing, understanding ...c1400 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from French percevant pr. pple. of percevoir to perceive FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1400 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...þe fferthe, þat he loke to, and be persayuant, whenne nede shal faƚƚ..." From: Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum By: Robert Steele Daily Word Quiz Answer HEFTY-KEFTY d) wavering, undecided ...B1900 Eng. dial.   Daily Word Quiz
COLL-HARDY a) resourceful, cunning b) self-confident, conceited c) foolhardy; foolishly rash d) merry, cheerful, in good spirits Answer below. Today's Featured Word BOULEVERSE VERB to upset, to overturn, to throw into utter disorder ...1673 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from French bouleverser to turn as a ball, from boule ball, verser to turn FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1673 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...For it would raise a very great disorder in the world to bouleverse so, and overturn the signification of all words..." From: The Rehearsal Transprosed By: Andrew Marvell, 1673 Daily Word Quiz Answer COLL-HARDY c) foolhardy; foolishly rash ...1581 obs. rare Daily Word Quiz
TITUBATE a) to stagger, to stumble, to trip b) to tidy up, to make neat c) to potter, to trifle, to fidget d) to chatter, to talk idly, to gossip Answer below. Today's Featured Word ZAD NOUN 1. the letter 'Z' ...1669 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 2. a deformed or crooked person; a bandy-legged person; a hunchbacked person ...1725 sl. ETYMOLOGY variant of Zed FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1669 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...we may imagine it to have been anciently pronounced, as it is now by the Italians, Ds or Ts; and so to be called Zad from the Hebrew Tsadi: but yet to make out my observation, we, who pronounce it as a single Letter, do as often call it Yzard." From: Elements Of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters By: William Holder, 1669 Daily Word Quiz Answer TITUBATE a) to stagger, to stumble, to trip ...1575 rare Daily Word Quiz LATITATE a) to lurk; to lie hid b) to bark like a dog c) to rob; to play the thief d) to mock at, to deride Answer below. Today's Featured Word MELANCHOLICO NOUN a hypochondriac ...1676 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Italian melancolico FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1676 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Or of the Monstrous Credulity, some besotted Melancholicoes may be inveigled into." From: The Doctrine of Devils proved to be the Grand Apostacy of these Later Times, 1676 Daily Word Quiz Answer LATITATE a) to lurk; to lie hid ...1623 obs. rare  HOW TO PLAY "Wollables" (from word/syllable) is a word game where you connect syllables to form words or phrases to answer the given clues. The first letter of each answer will spell out the answer of the main clue. EG: In WOLLABLES #3, clue 11. is 'Prisoner' Amongst the syllables listed you will find 'BIRD' and 'YARD' - connect them to make 'YARDBIRD'. The first letter 'Y' is the last letter in the answer to the main clue, 'Filthy talk, ribaldry'.  Daily Word Quiz
JUTTLE a) to drink habitually, to tipple b) to jumble, to shake, to mix by agitation c) to talk rapidly or foolishly d) to bespatter or splash with mud Answer below. Today's Featured Word TARDIDATION NOUN the act of delaying, delay, postponement; a hindering, retarding ...1647 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY irregular for ? tardation or tarditation FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1647 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...But to instruct them to avoid all snares, Of tardidation in the Lords Affaires." From: The Noble Numbers: or His Pious Pieces By: Robert Herrick, 1647 Daily Word Quiz Answer JUTTLE a) to drink habitually, to tipple ...1813 Sc. Daily Word Quiz
STREPITATE a) to amaze or stupefy one b) to walk with long steps, to stride c) to deceive, to trick, to cheat d) to make a great noise Answer below. Today's Featured Word KLEPTISTIC ADJ. pert. to theft; related to or consisting in stealing ...1742-3 rare ETYMOLOGY from Greek κλέπτης, kleptés, a thief + -istic FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1742-3 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Indeed there is a method called the Kleptistic, which hath been preferred to the Metabolic: But this is too dangerous..." From: Philosophical Transactions for the Year 1742-3 By: Henry Fielding Daily Word Quiz Answer STREPITATE d) to make a great noise ...1656 obs. Daily Word Quiz FLAMFOO a) a clumsy, embarrassing, or highly unpleasant person b) a gaudily-dressed woman whose chief pleasure consists in dress c) nonsense; vain boasting; empty talk d) a defective firecracker that burns with a hissing sound Answer below. Today's Featured Word ROMULIST NOUN 1. a descendant of Romulus; a Roman, a native of ancient Rome ...1594 obs. rare 2. a Roman Catholic ...1620 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Romulus + -ist FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1594 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Why from Molossus and falses Hanibal, Have ye reserv'd the noble Romulists?" From: Cornelia, A Tragedy By: Thomas Kyd, 1594 Daily Word Quiz Answer FLAMFOO b) a gaudily-dressed woman whose chief pleasure consists in dress ...19th-cent. Sc. Daily Word Quiz
PAVEFY a) to give a good beating to, to thrash b) to make afraid, to frighten c) to raise with a lever, to lift d) to make calm, to pacify Answer below. Today's Featured Word FEERY-FARRY also in forms: feiry-, ferie-, fierie-, fiery-, firie-, firry-, -fairy, -farey, -farie, -fary NOUN a bustle, a tumult; a state of excitement, disorder, confusion ...1535 Sc. obs. ETYMOLOGY reduplicated form of 'fary' fairy(land), excitement FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1535 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The fantasie and eik the ferie farye, The greit triumph, the sporting and the play, The singing, dansing, that was euerilk day, The sumptuous cheir and cost of euerie thing, Wes maid that tyme at mariage of our king..." From: The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland By: William Stewart, 1535 Daily Word Quiz Answer PAVEFY b) to make afraid, to frighten ...1656 Daily Word Quiz
MECONOPHAGIST a) one who eats fish b) an eater of horse flesh c) an 'opium-eater'; a user of opium d) a bookworm Answer below. Today's Featured Word SUPELLECTICARIOUS ADJ. of or pert. to household stuff ...1656 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from late Latin supellecticarius relating to household stuff or furniture FIRST DOCUMENTED USE Suppellecticarious (suppellecticarius) that pertains to houshold-stuff From: Glossographia By: Thomas Blount, 1656 EXAMPLE "...And when first the Creator gave each birth, Was suppellecticarious to Earth: So that to view defecated did come..." From: Epiloimia Epe, or The Anatomy of the Pestilence A Poem in Three Parts By: William Austin, 1666 Daily Word Quiz Answer MECONOPHAGIST c) an 'opium-eater'; a user of opium ...1886 Daily Word Quiz
DOOLZIE a) a frolicsome and thoughtless woman b) the head c) money d) something the name of which is forgotten Answer below. Today's Featured Word OSTENTATORY ADJ. intended to attract attention or admiration; ostentatious ...1657 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin ostentatorius relating to portents from ostentator FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1657 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...'Tis no unlikely but some captious Antagonist may censure my Aphorisms as ostentatory..." From: Natures Explication and Helmont's Vindication. Or A Short and Sure Way to a Long and Sound Life By: George Starkey, 1657 Daily Word Quiz Answer DOOLZIE a) a frolicsome and thoughtless woman ...19th-cent. Sc. Daily Word Quiz
YEVEROUS a) boorish, rustic b) angry, annoyed, irritated c) whining, complaining d) eager, zealously enthusiastic Answer below. Today's Featured Word HISTORIOGNOMER NOUN one learned in history ...1593 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Greek ιστορία (istoría) history, apparently after physiognomer FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1593 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...in the best historicall Methode that I could made out of the best Historiognomers." From: Philadelphus, or A Defence of Brutes and The Brutans History By: Richard Harvey, 1593 Daily Word Quiz Answer YEVEROUS d) eager, zealously enthusiastic ...c1400 obs. 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. Daily Word Quiz
RUMPTY a) coarse, rough b) excellent c) stupid, silly, idiotic d) rumpled, crumpled Answer below. Today's Featured Word WINK-A-PEEPS NOUN the eyes ...1615 obs. ETYMOLOGY from wink (vb.) + peep (n.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1615 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Wy-ho, Endimion; how th' Dormouse sleeps, Awake for shame, open thy wink-a-peeps! From: A Strappado for the Diuell By: Richard Brathwaite, 1615 Daily Word Quiz Answer RUMPTY b) excellent ...1941 Aust. & NZ sl. Daily Word Quiz
CHIKE a) the human head b) a chick, a chicken; hence, a child c) money d) a pilot who flies with one wing low Answer below. Today's Featured Word PERCEIT NOUN perception, understanding, comprehension ...1399 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from perceive, on the analogy of deceit, etc. FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1399 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...ffor it passid my parceit and my preifis also, How so wondirfull werkis wolde haue an ende." From: Richard the Redeles By: William Langland, 1399 Daily Word Quiz Answer CHIKE b) a chick, a chicken; hence, a child ...a1430 obs. Daily Word Quiz
VAUNEANT a) a boaster or braggart b) a short run before taking a leap c) a good-for-nothing person d) a strong burst of temper Answer below. Today's Featured Word CLUSTEROUS ADJ. in a cluster, thronging, gathering close together ...1583 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from cluster (n.) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1583 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Neere the seacost gating, theym slot thee clusterus heerdflock" From: Thee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Æneis Translated By: Richard Stanyhurst, 1583 Daily Word Quiz Answer VAUNEANT c) a good-for-nothing person ...1621 obs. |