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      • Reverse Dictionary MONEY - MONEY ORDER
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DUBITATIVE

29/6/2018

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HIPSY-DIPSY
a) a lame person
b) a castigation; a slap on the buttocks
c) a horse-drawn vehicle
d) a thing of very little value
 
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Today's Featured Word
DUBITATIVE
 
ADJ.
inclined or given to doubt; expressing doubt or hesitancy;
doubting, uncertain ...1727
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dubitativus doubtful, from dubitare to doubt
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1727 - "Conjunctions dubitative, those which express some doubt, or suspension of opinion..."
From: Cyclopaedia: Or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
By: Ephraim Chambers, 1727
 
EXAMPLE
"...turning his head on one side in a dubitative manner..."
 From: Adam Bede
By: George Eliot, 1859
 

Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
HIPSY-DIPSY
​b) a castigation; a slap on the buttocks ...1881 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
 
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LIMMER

27/6/2018

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DUNDUCKITY
a) of long continuance, lasting, enduring
b) somewhat ill, indisposed
c) of an undecided, dull colour
d) bewildered, confused
 
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 Today's Featured Word
LIMMER
 
ADJ.
knavish, scoundrelly, roguish, rascally ...1500-20 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
 
NOUN
1. a rogue, a rascal, a knave, a scoundrel
...1456 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
2. an unchaste, loose, or immoral woman; a mistress, a prostitute
...1566 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
3. a sarcastic or contemptuous term for any female ...1720 Sc.
4. a malevolent or mischievous woman ...1752 Sc.
5. a wild, undisciplined girl; a bold, impudent girl or woman;
a jade, a hussy ...1786 Sc.
6. a mischievous boy ...1880 Sc.
 
ETYMOLOGY
Old Scot. lymmar a rogue
of obscure origin;
connection with 'limb' possible
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1456 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...As gif ane unworthy lymmare that settis nocht for honour bot for pillery, had tane a blynd man..."
 From: The Buke of the Law of Armys
By: Sir. G. Haye, 1456

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
DUNDUCKITY
c) of an undecided, dull colour ...19C Eng. dial.

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CONCLUDENT

26/6/2018

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BLUE-PIPE
a) the lilac
b) a bullet
c) illegal whisky
d) a deep hole in a river
 
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CONCLUDENT
 
ADJ.
that 'concludes' a question or an opponent; conclusive,
decisive, convincing; final, certain ...1571 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin concludentem, pr. pple. of concludere to conclude
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1571 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...and then I thought, when I read it, that his arguments were never concludent, but always I found more in the conclusion..."
From: Letters to Archbishop Grindal
Letter LXVII to Archbishop Parker, Aug. 28, 1571

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
BLUE-PIPE
​a) the lilac ...1597 obs.

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SHARE-PENNY

25/6/2018

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WARM-POCKETED
a) having an excitable temperament
b) intoxicated with alcohol
c) rich, well-to-do
d) lewd, lascivious, wanton

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SHARE-PENNY

NOUN
one who would shear a penny; a mean person of the worst kind;
a niggard, a miser ...1606 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from share (vb.) to cut into parts; to cut off (obs.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1606 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...for Ile goe neere to cosen olde father share-penny of his daughter."
From: Wily Beguiled, 1606


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WARM-POCKETED
c) rich, well-to-do ...1899 Eng. dial.
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NIGNAY

24/6/2018

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SHOGGY
a) shaky, insecure
b) shameful, disgraceful
c) dishonest, cheating
d) infatuated, obsessed with
 
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 Today's Featured Word
NIGNAY
also NIGNAW, NIGNOY, NIG-NYE
 
NOUN
1. a knickknack, a trinket, a trifle; a trifling, useless thing or proceeding;
an unnecessary ornament or frill, a gewgaw ...a1689 Sc.
 
2. a quarrelsome hypercritical person; one who picks faults ...1920 Sc.
 
VERB
to trifle, to fuss about, to work without result; to hum and haw, to be undecided, to vacillate; to do what is useless; to show reluctance ...1880 Sc.
 
ETYMOLOGY
of obscure formation; probably an arbitrary formation based on such words as nick-nack, etc.
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1689 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...He was not for the French nig nayes,
But briskly to his brethren says;
Good gentlemen, we may not doubt..."
From: A Collection of Several Poems and Verses
By: William Cleland, a1689

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
SHOGGY
​a) shaky, insecure ...1866

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JOLLOCK

21/6/2018

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RYE-MOUSE
a) a field mouse
b) illegal whisky
c) a timid person
d) a bat
 
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Today's Featured Word
JOLLOCK
 
ADJ.
jolly, fat, hearty, and healthy ...1824 Sc.
 
VERB
to jolt, to bump ...19C Eng. dial.
 
ETYMOLOGY
For adj: a nonce variant of jolly with substitution of 'ock' for 'y'
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
? 1824 as below
 
EXAMPLE
"...And bicker through the glens sae deep,
Fu' jollock, blythe, and swankie,
Right cheels that day."
 From: Cannlesmas Day
'Written by a youth of 15'
In: The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopaedia
By: John Mactaggart, 1824
 
 
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RYE-MOUSE
​d) a bat ...1777 Eng. dial.

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EMPOVER

21/6/2018

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NICEBICE
a) a dainty, fine, or fashionable girl or woman
b) a cigarette
c) the testicles
d) the nape of the neck
 
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EMPOVER
 
VERB
to impoverish, to make poor ...1474 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French enpoverir to impoverish
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1474 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...How torne they the lawe and statutes at their plesure how ete they the peple how empouere they the comynte."
 From: The Game and Playe of the Chesse
By: William Caxton, 1474
 

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NICEBICE
​a) a dainty, fine, or fashionable girl or woman ...1595 obs. rare
 
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ALACRIATE

20/6/2018

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KANAKALAND
a) Hawaii
b) Queensland, Australia
c) New Guinea
d) Cook Islands
 
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Today's Featured Word
ALACRIATE
 
VERB
to make cheerful and lively; to excite; to rouse to action;
to encourage; to embolden ...1657 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin alacris active, lively, cheerful + -ate
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1657 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...and all to allacriate the spirit of Man."
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick
Composed by: the Illustrious Renodaeus
Translated and Revised by: Richard Tomlinson, 1657
 

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KANAKALAND
b) Queensland, Australia ...L19 Aust. sl.
 
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PARVANIMITY

19/6/2018

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IMPERDIBLE
a) impudent, saucy
b) not capable of being lost or destroyed
c) characterized by imperfection, imperfect
d) unskilled, ignorant
 
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Today's Featured Word
PARVANIMITY
 
NOUN
smallness of mind, meanness, narrow-mindedness;
also, an instance of this, or a person characterized by it ...a1691
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin parvus small + animus mind:
a suggested antithesis to magnanimity
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1691 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...They will justly esteem your parvanimity so great that you deserve derision for so poorly fearing it."
From: A Discourse Against Customary Swearing
By: Robert Boyle, a1691

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
IMPERDIBLE
​b) not capable of being lost or destroyed ...1661 obs. rare

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MAVORTIAN

18/6/2018

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GRACILIOUS
a) grieved, sorrowful
b) excellent, first-rate
c) slender, thin, lean
d) highly skilled or capable
 
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MAVORTIAN
 
ADJ.
warlike, martial ...1557 obs.
 
NOUN
a warrior ...1598 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Mavortius of Mars, from Mavortem (Mavors - Mars) + -an
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1557 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Mauortian moods, Saturnian furies fell.
Of tragicall turmoyls the haynous hell?"
From: Tottel's Miscellany: Songes and Sonettes
by Henry Howard, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Nicholas Grimald
'Of N. Ch.' by Nicholas Grimald, 1557
 

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GRACILIOUS
​c) slender, thin, lean

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GASTROLATROUS

15/6/2018

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ANCLIFF
a) a luncheon
b) an outhouse, a privy
c) an accident, a disaster
d) the ankle
 
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GASTROLATROUS
 
ADJ.
belly-worshipping; gluttonous, greedy, voracious ...1694 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from French gastrolatre (Cotgrave), from Greek γαστρ(ο)-, γαστήρ belly + -λατρος serving
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1694 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...so great is their Variety in figures, colours, streaks, and inimitable
shapes, I protest, the Variety we perceiv'd in the Dresses of
the Gastrolatrous Coquillons was not less."
 From: Pantagruel's Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle
Being the fourth and fifth books of The Works of Francis Rabelais
Translated By: Peter Motteux, 1694
 
 
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ANCLIFF
​d) the ankle ...1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
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TUZZY-MUZZY

13/6/2018

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VILIACO
a) a prison inmate who has a very dirty cell
b) a vile or contemptible person; a villain
c) a brothel
d) a reef of rocks in the sea
 
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TUZZY- MUZZY
also TUZZIE-MUZZIE
 
ADJ.
dishevelled, ragged, untidy; fuzzy ...1847 Eng. dial.
 
NOUN
1. a bunch or posy of flowers, a nosegay; a garland of flowers
...c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
2. the vagina ...1711 sl.
3. a burr ...1842 Eng. dial.
4. a person much wrapped up ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
ETYMOLOGY
apparently a kind of reduplicated or rhyming jingle on 'tussy'
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1440 - TYTE TUST, OR tusmose of flowrys or othyr herbys (tytetust or
tussemose, s.) Olfactorium
From: Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum:
Dictionarius Anglo-Latinus Princeps
 
EXAMPLE
"...Servia, a nosegay; a tuzziemuzzie; a sweet posie."
From: The Nomenclater, or Remembrancer of Adrianus Junius
Translated By: John Higins, 1585

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
VILIACO
​b) a vile or contemptible person; a villain ...1599 obs.
 
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OSCITANT

13/6/2018

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POWFAGGED
a) tired, exhausted
b) angry, raging
c) conceited, forward, swaggering
d) pregnant
 
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OSCITANT
 
ADJ.
gaping from drowsiness, yawning; hence, drowsy, dull, indolent,
negligent, inattentive through drowsiness ...1625 rare or obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin oscitantem, pr. pple. of oscitare to gape, to yawn
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1625 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...They thinke it too long a taske for so short a life, to turne ouer so
much as the Indexes of all, they growe oscitant, and will peruse none."
 From: David's Strait
By: John King, 1625
 

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POWFAGGED
​a) tired, exhausted ...1864 Eng. dial.
 
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HERIT

11/6/2018

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MALLISHAG
a) a caterpillar that devours cabbages
b) a girl who spends a lot of time at a shopping centre
c) a female ass
d) a confused heap
 
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HERIT
 
NOUN
inheritance ...c1475 obs.
 
VERB
to inherit ...a1533 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French heriter to inherit
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1475 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...In riches herite was not in þe best,
But of good lyuyng was in-dede an set."
 From: The Romans of Partenay or of Lusignen:
Otherwise Known as The Tale of Melusine
Translated from the French of La Coudrette
 

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MALLISHAG
​a) a caterpillar that devours cabbages ...1777 Eng. dial.
 
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BULLIRAGGLE

11/6/2018

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FAMELICOSE
a) pert. to one's family or household
b) famous, well-known
c) often or very hungry
d) fanciful; whimsical
 
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BULLIRAGGLE
 
NOUN
a noisy quarrel, one in which opprobrious epithets are bandied
...1825 Sc.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from bullyrag (vb.) to assail with abusive language
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1825 - Suppl. to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language.
By: John Jamieson
 
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
FAMELICOSE
​c) often or very hungry ...1730 obs. rare
 
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