Daily Word Quiz
PEG-PUFF a) a young woman with the manners of an old one b) a thick, muscular leg c) a pregnant horse d) a small, furry dog Answer below. Today's Featured Word BRANLING ADJ. wavering, vacillating, irresolute ...c1645 obs. NOUN a wavering; an instance of irresolution or vacillation ...1646 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from branle (vb.) to agitate, toss about, bandy + -ing FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1645 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Whosoever was found pendulous, or branling in his Religion..." From: Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign By: James Howell, c1645 Daily Word Quiz Answer PEG-PUFF a) a young woman with the manners of an old one ...1824 Sc.
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