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CAPE-NIGHTINGALE a) a frog b) a crow c) a donkey d) a buzzard Answer below. Today's Featured Word: POUCH-MOUTH ADJ. having a mouth like a pouch, i.e. with thick or protruding lips ...1565 obs. NOUN a mouth with protruding lips; a person with protruding lips ...c1570 obs. ETYMOLOGY from pouch (n.) + mouth (n.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1565 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Thou pouchmouth knave! Thou shalt strypes have ..." From: A Pretie New Enterlude both Pithie And Pleasant Of the Story of Kyng Daryus, 1565 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 Daily Word Quiz Answer CAPE-NIGHTINGALE a) a frog ...1889 sl.
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HIT THE RUBY a) to become bold b) to set off, to get going; to leave c) to become very annoyed, to explode with temper d) to drink heavily, to be drunk Answer below. Today's Featured Word: DECEPTITIOUS ADJ. of a deceptive kind or character; deluding, illusory ...1827 rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin stem decept- ppl. stem of decipere to deceive + -itious FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1827 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...that any deceptitious representation of psychological facts can be conveyed." From: Rationale of Judicial Evidence By: Jeremy Bentham, 1827 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 Daily Word Quiz Answer HIT THE RUBY d) to drink heavily, to be drunk ...L19 US sl. Daily Word Quiz
PEJORATE a) to consider, to ponder b) to defer from day to day, to procrastinate c) to make or grow worse; to deteriorate d) to announce, to presage Answer below. Today's Featured Word: NEVE also NEFE, NEPHE, NEWE NOUN 1. a nephew ...c900 obs. 2. a grandson ...c1400 obs. 3. a spendthrift, a squanderer ...c1440 obs. rare 4. a spot or mark on the skin ...1624 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY for n. 1-3: from Old English nefa a nephew, a grandson, a stepson for n. 4: from obsolete French neve, or from Latin naevus FIRST DOCUMENTED USE (Noun 1) "Hloþhere feng to biscepdome ofer Wesseaxan ægelbryhtes biscepes nefa." From: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The Parker Manuscript, c900 EXAMPLE (Noun 1) "...by the which you required me to helpe Tho. Compton, your nephe, to some honiest ocopation at London..." From: Plumpton Correspondence: A Series of Letters, Chiefly Domestick, Written in the Reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII, and Henry VIII, 1460-1522 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • Lost Beauties of the English Language, Charles Mackay, 1874 • Oldest Words in the English Language, Herbert Coleridge, 1862 • A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, James Halliwell, 1855 Daily Word Quiz Answer PEJORATE c) to make or grow worse; to deteriorate; to worsen ...1653 |
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