Daily Word Quiz
HEEPY a) a penny b) a mule c) a neighbour d) a melancholy or listless person Answer below. Today's Featured Word: CORSY also CORSEY, CORSIE ADJ. corpulent, fat, plump, big-bodied, stout ...c1440 obs. ETYMOLOGY from French corsé in Old French corsie having body, corpulent, from cors body FIRST DOCUMENTED USE Corcy, or corercyows. Corpulentus. From: Promptorium Parvulorum, c1440 EXAMPLE "...The corsy pasand Osyris hes slane" From: The XIII Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill Translated By: Gavin Douglas, 1513 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 Daily Word Quiz Answer HEEPY d) a melancholy or listless person ...1788 Scot. obs.
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