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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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WORD OF THE DAY: BISH-BOSH

30/6/2021

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BISH-BOSH
 
NOUN
nonsense, rubbish, foolish talk ...1937 colloq. rare

INT.
1. nonsense! ...1922 colloq. rare
2. indicating something accomplished or completed quickly, simply, or expediently ...1989 Brit. colloq.


ETYMOLOGY
possibly a reduplication, with vowel variation, of bosh (n. contemptible nonsense, foolish talk or opinions)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1922 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"... It will not suffice for Mr. MacMonnies to meet Mayor Hylan's assault upon Civic Virtue with ‘Hell's bells!’ ‘Bish-bosh!’ and ‘Cackle-gabble!..."
From: The New York Times
March 21, 1922
Flapperism
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WORD OF THE DAY: TOL-LOL

29/6/2021

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TOL-LOL
also TOLL-LOLL

ADJ.
1. tolerable, bearable, pretty good, pretty well, passable; in fairly good health ...1797 sl.
2. overbearing ...1849 Aust. sl.
3. intoxicated ...Bk1897 Eng. dial. sl.
4. foppish ...1902 Aust. & US sl.

ETYMOLOGY
from the first syllable of tolerable (adj.), with rhyming extension

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1797 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...for my part, I think there's reason in roasting of eggs; and the butler ses too, as out lady did nothen' in the world but stare at you all supper-time; and he ses you looked very toll-loll; and so, I dare say, you did; but I beg of all love you wont think of calling me Betty..."
From: The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors
- Agnes Maria Bennett
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WORD OF THE DAY: NOGHEAD

28/6/2021

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​​NOGHEAD
 
NOUN

a foolish or stupid person ...1800

ETYMOLOGY
from nog (n. a peg, pin, or cylindrical piece of wood, serving any of various purposes) + head (n.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1800 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...'Zounds! what a noghead and a fool!' says Tap,
'To mend old crocks, and candlesticks, and kittles -
Thy hammer always going, rap, rap, rap -
And all to git, forseth, a bit o' vittels!..."

From: Horrors of Bribery
- John Wolcot ('Peter Pindar')
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WORD OF THE DAY: SUFFERANT

27/6/2021

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​SUFFERANT
 
ADJ.
long-suffering, patient, tolerant, enduring ...c1330 obs.

NOUN
a person who is patient or long-suffering ...c1374 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-Norman suffrant, Old French soffrant , present participle of suffrir , soffrir (to suffer)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1330 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...And ȝif þe falleþ trauail on honde,
Or pine of bodi, or shame in londe,
Off al þis þu most suffraunt be,
Þouh þe þinke hit greue þe.
Þenk hou Ihesu into erþe cam,
And þolede pine and shame for man,
And foule was þerto misseid,
And many a skorn on him leid
..."
From: Speculum Gy de Warewyke (Speculum of Guy of Warwick)
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WORD OF THE DAY: FUBBY

26/6/2021

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​FUBBY
 
ADJ.

of the figure, limbs, etc.: fat and squat; chubby, plump ...1790 rare

ETYMOLOGY
from fub (n. a small chubby person) + -y

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1790 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...While touch'd by Extacy we madd'ning lay,
With raging, rav'nous energy fatigu'd,
Th' Idalian urchin and his fubby crew,
Guarded the passes of the blest retreat,
Circling its precincts; odoriferous bloom'd
The modest Violet and Cowslip sweet,
Dew-wash'd Primroses and Carnations gay,
And round a Cedar's fragrant trung uprear'd,
Plants of high import or in scent or taste!
..."
From: Shrove Tuesday: A Satiric Rhapsody 
- John Williams ('Anthony Pasquin')
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WORD OF THE DAY: ITINERARIAN

25/6/2021

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​ITINERARIAN
 
ADJ.
pertaining to a journey, travelling, or route ...1801 rare

NOUN
a person who itinerates; a traveller ...1822 rare

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin itinerārius (pertaining to a journey) + -an

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1801 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...A Polymetrical Table, Shewing the Itinerarian Distances, in British Miles, between some of the most remarkable Places of Hindustan..."
From: The Asiatic Annual Register: Or, A View of the History of Hindustan, and of the Politics, Commerce, and Literature of Asia for the year 1800
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WORD OF THE DAY: CHELP

24/6/2021

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CHELP
 
NOUN

the cry of a young bird; a shrill noise; chatter; impudent or contentious talk ...1859 Eng. dial.

VERB
to produce a chirping or squeaking sound, as a bird; to chatter or speak pertly or saucily; to talk too much ...1820 Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
 

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1820 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...And in the cottage gangs with dread,
To meet old Dobson's timely frown,
Who grumbling sits, prepar'd for bed,
While she stands chelping 'bout the town
..."
From: Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
- John Clare
Summer Evening
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WORD OF THE DAY: WROTHY

23/6/2021

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WROTHY
 
ADJ.

wrathful, angry, irate, incensed ...1422

ETYMOLOGY
from wroth (adj. very angry or indignant, stirred to wrath) + -y

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1422 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Whan thou haste all ythoght, mowrnynge and wrothi thow shalte reme. lette thy thoght be stabill, certayne, and trewe, thy worde be not in vayne, but be hit of Solace othyr of Prowe..."
From: Secreta Secretorum (The Secret of Secrets)
Translated by James Yonge
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WORD OF THE DAY: PUDDY

22/6/2021

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PUDDY
 
ADJ.

short, thickset; stumpy; podgy, pudgy ...1747 rare

NOUN
a 'puddock', a frog ...1796 Sc.

ETYMOLOGY
possibly from pud (n.) + -y

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1747 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Their friends..express their obligations to me, particularly..the
young one's puddy wife
..."
From: Horace Mann Letters 10 Jan. in Horatio Walpole's Correspondence
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WORD OF THE DAY: BERGFALL

21/6/2021

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BERGFALL
 
NOUN

a falling of rock fragments or debris; the ruinous fall of a mountain peak or crag; an avalanche of stones ...1856

ETYMOLOGY
from German bergfall (fall of a mountain)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1856 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...on a smaller scale, they produce some of the most terrific and fantastic forms of precipice; not altogether without danger, as has been fearfully demonstrated by many a "bergfall" among the limestone groups of the Alps; but with far less danger than would have resulted from the permission of such forms among the higher hills..."
From: The Works of John Ruskin: Modern Painters
- John Ruskin
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WORD OF THE DAY: ROTUNDIOUS

20/6/2021

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ROTUNDIOUS
 
ADJ.
round or rounded; rotund, spherical ...1614 rare
 

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin rotundus (rotund) + -ious

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1614 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...He's now obscur'd and now his beames out: powres
As skies are cleare, or thicke twixt vs and him.
Thus all the Aprill, ar bopeepe he plaies,
Incircling daily the Rotundious spheare.
And at the Bull he hides his glistring raies
..."
From: The Nipping Or Snipping of Abuses: Or the Woolgathering of Witte
- John Taylor
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WORD OF THE DAY: MINDY

19/6/2021

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MINDY
 
ADJ.
having recollection or remembrance, retaining memories; taking thought or care, mindful, heedful; being conscious or aware ...a1000 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from mind (n.) + -y

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1000 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"... Recordatus est petrus uerbi quod dixerat ei iesus: myndig wæs petrus wordes ðætte cweden wæs him ðe hæland..."
From: The Rushworth Gospels,
The Gospel According to Saint Mark in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions synoptically arranged
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WORD OF THE DAY: EFFROYABLE

18/6/2021

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EFFROYABLE
 
ADJ.
dreadful, frightful, terrifying, horrifying, appalling ...1689 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from French effroyable, from effroi (fright)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1689  - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...It is probable, the whole Chorus not arriving together, the first come, upon the sight of such an effroyable symptom, either being not sufficiently skilful, or not taking time to examine into the case, might mistake it for an Apoplexy, and too precipitantly advise bleeding, to make room in the Vessels for the Blood to move, and consequently to prevent stagnation, and coagulation..."
From: The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation with Remarks on a Supposed Great Case of Apoplectick Fits
- Gideon Harvey
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WORD OF THE DAY: CENTIMILLIONAIRE

17/6/2021

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CENTIMILLIONAIRE
 
NOUN
a person whose assets are worth at least 100 million dollars ...1881 US

ETYMOLOGY
from centi- (prefixed to the name of a unit of measurement, in later use esp. one in the metric system of weights and measures, to denote a factor of one-hundredth) + millionaire (n.), after multimillionaire

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1881 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...as counsel for the Knights of St. Crispin, for the Seven Sisters of Sorrow, and private clients in many important cases; as biographer of James C. Ayer, the centimillionaire; as the historian of the siege of Charleston and the city of Lowell..."
From: Preliminaries to a History of the Cowley Family
- Edward Cowley
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WORD OF THE DAY: HORNSWOGGLE

16/6/2021

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HORNSWOGGLE

NOUN
1. nonsense, foolery, humbug ...Bk1942 US sl.
2. an act of surpassing or confusing; a confidence trick ...1877 US sl.
3. a trickster, a charlatan ...1908 US sl.

 
VERB
1. to embarrass, to disconcert, to confuse ...1829 colloq., orig. US
2. to get the better of; to cheat or trick, to swindle, to deceive; to hoodwink, to humbug, to bamboozle ...1834 colloq., orig. US


ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1829 - Hornswoggle, to embarrass irretrievably.
From: Virginia Literary Museum and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc.

EXAMPLE
"..."Well, now." said he, "I wish I may be horn swoggled, if ever I thought to live to see the day when I should 'sculp' a Christian man; but there it is, you see; I left h is head as clean as a peeled onion..."
From: The Kentuckian in New York; or, The adventures of three Southerns
- William Alexander Caruthers
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WORD OF THE DAY: SCOTOPHOBIA

15/6/2021

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SCOTOPHOBIA
 
NOUN
1. an intense aversion or hostility towards Scotland, its people, or its culture ..1828
2. an irrational fear or dislike of the dark ...1844


ETYMOLOGY
noun 1. - from Scoto- (forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘of or relating to Scotland or its people) + -phobia (forming nouns with the sense ‘fear of ——’, ‘aversion to ——’);
noun 2. - from Scoto- (forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘of or relating to darkness) + -phobia (forming nouns with the sense ‘fear of ——’, ‘aversion to ——’)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1828 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Now, that the writer has been bit, is obvious enough, even though he had not confessed it. He has been driven to his pen by the influence of a sort of Scotophobia, which rendered seven copious evacuations necessary, in order to avoid more fatal consequences..."
From: Anglicanus Scotched
- Marcus Dods
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WORD OF THE DAY: FENERATITIOUS

14/6/2021

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FENERATITIOUS
 
ADJ.
pertaining or given to usury; relating to interest ...1656 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin faenerātīcius (relating to interest) , from faenerāre (lend money at interest) + -ous

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 - Feneratitious (foeneratitius) taken or given to usury, or pertaining thereto.
From: Glossographia: or, A Dictionary Interpreting All Such Hard Words...as are Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue
- Thomas Blount
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WORD OF THE DAY: OCCIDE

13/6/2021

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OCCIDE
 
VERB
to kill ...a1538 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from occīdere (to cut down, to kill), from ob- + caedere (to strike, to kill, to cut down)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1538 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...But so importunate forsooth was hir request,
That ignorance notwithstanding I began to descriue,
How that in the Historiographie it is playne expressed,
That Graccus by suggestion falsly did contriue
The Romains to rebel with the Senatours to striue,
Chalenging equipolent all things to be deuided,
Through whose discention as Oroke doth discriue,
Much ruine there befell, and many men occided
..."
From: The Fall and Euill Successe of Rebellion from Time to Time Wherein is contained Matter, Moste Meete for All Estates to Vewe
- Wilfrid Holme
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WORD OF THE DAY: TIDDLYPUSH

12/6/2021

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TIDDLYPUSH
 
NOUN
1. (also TIDDERLY-PUSH) a word substituted for the name of a person or thing which the speaker has forgotten, does not know, or is unwilling to mention; a thingummy ...1923 colloq.
2. the male genitals ...1934 Irish sl.


INT.
(as TIDDLY PUSH!) a nonsense word for goodbye ...c1920-1940

ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1923 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...And tidderly push, et patati et patata..."
From: Le Slang: Lexique de L'Anglais Familier et Vulgaire
- Joseph Manchon
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WORD OF THE DAY: LOITEROUS

11/6/2021

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​LOITEROUS
 
ADJ.
inclined to loiter; sluggish ...1566 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from loiter (vb.) + -ous

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1566 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...I ryse at ease, walke forth at ease, and then a caste at booke,
All secretly, (a ioy of ioyes at it to syt and loke)
For weryed with my bookishe gase, I noynte with supple oyle,
My loytrous limmes and when sir Phebe with brande beginnes to broyle:
I washe my corps in cooly shade, my dyat [...]male and thin,
Of pretie pittaunce, not so muche as stomacke woulde let in
..."
From: A Medicinable Morall
- Horace
Translated by Thomas Drant
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