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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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GILLOT

29/3/2018

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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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NIGRICANT

28/3/2018

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EXTONIOUS
a) surprising, unexpected, astonishing
b) unpleasant, disgusting; second-rate
c) eternal, everlasting
d) cheerful or patient in life
 
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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
 
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DEHONESTATE

27/3/2018

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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
 
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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.
 
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RARACHOSE

26/3/2018

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BORIS-NORIS
a) lacking manners, boorish, uncouth
b) careless, reckless, rash
c) nonsensical, rubbishy
d) flighty, giddy
 
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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.
 

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CRAINTIVE

25/3/2018

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WHISKISH
a) promiscuous; wanton; immoral
b) lively, frisky
c) intoxicated with alcohol
d) shaky, unstable
 
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 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
 
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PERCEIVANT

22/3/2018

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HEFTY-KEFTY
a) vigorous, robust
b) boorish, rustic
c) pregnant
d) wavering, undecided
 
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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.
 

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BOULEVERSE

21/3/2018

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COLL-HARDY
a) resourceful, cunning
b) self-confident, conceited
c) foolhardy; foolishly rash
d) merry, cheerful, in good spirits
 
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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
 
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ZAD

20/3/2018

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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
 
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 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

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MELANCHOLICO

19/3/2018

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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
 
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 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


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"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'.
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TARDIDATION

18/3/2018

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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
 
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Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
JUTTLE
a) to drink habitually, to tipple ...1813 Sc.

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KLEPTISTIC

15/3/2018

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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
 
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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.

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ROMULIST

14/3/2018

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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
 
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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.


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FEERY-FARRY

13/3/2018

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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
 
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 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
 
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Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
PAVEFY
b) to make afraid, to frighten ...1656
 
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SUPELLECTICARIOUS

12/3/2018

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MECONOPHAGIST
a) one who eats fish
b) an eater of horse flesh
c) an 'opium-eater'; a user of opium
d) a bookworm
 
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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
 
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Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
MECONOPHAGIST
​c) an 'opium-eater'; a user of opium ...1886

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OSTENTATORY

11/3/2018

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DOOLZIE
a) a frolicsome and thoughtless woman
b) the head
c) money
d) something the name of which is forgotten

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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.
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HISTORIOGNOMER

8/3/2018

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YEVEROUS
a) boorish, rustic
b) angry, annoyed, irritated
c) whining, complaining
d) eager, zealously enthusiastic
 
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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.

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ALPESTRIOUS

7/3/2018

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IZEY-TIZEY
a) zigzag, winding, crooked
b) very small, tiny
c) snappy, angry, cross
d) uncertain, wavering, undecided
 
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 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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WINK-A-PEEPS

6/3/2018

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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

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Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
RUMPTY b) excellent ...1941 Aust. & NZ sl.

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PERCEIT

5/3/2018

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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.
 
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CLUSTEROUS

4/3/2018

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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.

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