Daily Word Quiz TEPEFY a) to make moderately tepid or warm b) to inspire with groundless fear c) to provoke, to torment d) to hinder, to delay Answer below. Today's Featured Word GILLOT NOUN 1. a mare ...c1375 Sc. obs. 2. a loose or wanton woman ...1557 obs. ETYMOLOGY probably a diminutive of the female name 'Gill', 'Gillet', a woman's name FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1375 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...be his nygramancy He walk wirk mony ferly, As to gere a woman apere As scho one wgly gillet were..." From: Legends of the Saints In the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century By: John Barbour, c1375 Daily Word Quiz Answer TEPEFY a) to make moderately tepid or warm ...1656
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