Daily Word Quiz
POWFAGGED a) tired, exhausted b) angry, raging c) conceited, forward, swaggering d) pregnant Answer below. Today's Featured Word OSCITANT ADJ. gaping from drowsiness, yawning; hence, drowsy, dull, indolent, negligent, inattentive through drowsiness ...1625 rare or obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin oscitantem, pr. pple. of oscitare to gape, to yawn FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1625 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...They thinke it too long a taske for so short a life, to turne ouer so much as the Indexes of all, they growe oscitant, and will peruse none." From: David's Strait By: John King, 1625 Daily Word Quiz Answer POWFAGGED a) tired, exhausted ...1864 Eng. dial.
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