Daily Word Quiz
VILIACO a) a prison inmate who has a very dirty cell b) a vile or contemptible person; a villain c) a brothel d) a reef of rocks in the sea Answer below. Today's Featured Word TUZZY- MUZZY also TUZZIE-MUZZIE ADJ. dishevelled, ragged, untidy; fuzzy ...1847 Eng. dial. NOUN 1. a bunch or posy of flowers, a nosegay; a garland of flowers ...c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 2. the vagina ...1711 sl. 3. a burr ...1842 Eng. dial. 4. a person much wrapped up ...Bk1905 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY apparently a kind of reduplicated or rhyming jingle on 'tussy' FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1440 - TYTE TUST, OR tusmose of flowrys or othyr herbys (tytetust or tussemose, s.) Olfactorium From: Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum: Dictionarius Anglo-Latinus Princeps EXAMPLE "...Servia, a nosegay; a tuzziemuzzie; a sweet posie." From: The Nomenclater, or Remembrancer of Adrianus Junius Translated By: John Higins, 1585 Daily Word Quiz Answer VILIACO b) a vile or contemptible person; a villain ...1599 obs.
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