Daily Word Quiz
NABALISTIC a) well-to-do, living comfortably b) neat, trim, well-dressed c) of things: inferior, paltry d) churlish, miserly Answer below. Today's Featured Word: PUMILIO also PUMILO, POMILIO NOUN a dwarf; a diminutive person or plant ...1576 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin pumilio, pumilo a dwarf from pumilis dwarfish FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1576 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...He was (belike) some Pomilio or litle dwarfe, and that made him to vse this eironical method." From: A Panoplie of Epistles By Abraham Fleming, 1576 Daily Word Quiz Answer NABALISTIC d) churlish, miserly ...1659 obs.
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