Daily Word Quiz
GAMALIAN a) a coward b) the leg of a horse c) a sprite that plays pranks at night d) a chameleon Answer below. Today's Featured Word: STUPROUS ADJ. unchaste, sexually compliant; given to adultery or whoredom, adulterous, whorish ...1603 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin stuprosus, from stuprum debauchery, lewdness, violation FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1603 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Who seeing himselfe engaged in so stuprous a necessitie, resolved vpon an haughtie enterprize." From: Michel de Montaigne's Essayes, or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses Translated By: John Florio, 1603 Daily Word Quiz Answer GAMALIAN d) a chameleon ...c1440 obs.
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