Umwelt is blowing my mind. #wordoftheweek
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Umwelt is blowing my mind. #wordoftheweek
Any Gilmore Girls fans out there?!? Today's #WordOfTheWeek is a word I've known for a while but had never seen in writing! Anyone suffering from the same affliction as poor Michel? #GilmoreGirls
I'm feeling especially sleepy from my migraine meds today so this was my #WordOfTheWeek. Anyone else just extra tired today?
I didn't even know that this was a word. ? #WordOfTheWeek
18th-century English lexicographer Samuel Johnson declared "commove" as being "not in use," but the word had not really disappeared from the language; it was simply, at that time, popular primarily with Scottish writers. The 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer is credited with the first use of "commove," and many writers since have used the word, including Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot.
Came across this word in my reading this week so I decided to share as the #WordOfTheWeek
"Eldritch" comes from a time when otherworldly beings were commonly thought to inhabit the earth. The word is about 500 yrs old and believed to have come from Middle English "elfriche," meaning "fairyland." The two components of "elfriche" - "elf" and "riche" - come from the Old English "ælf" and "rīce" (words which meant "elf kingdom").
Today's #WordOfTheWeek this word just makes me giggle and I cannot wait to use it in causal conversation. ??
"Please excuse me I need to absquatulate" ???
I'm enjoying doing this each week so far. If you are too let me know ?
This is actually the Webster's Dictionary Word of the Day. If you'd like more history check out their site.
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Mansuetude was first used in English in the 14th century, and it derives from the Latin verb mansuescere, which means "to tame." Mansuescere itself comes from the noun manus (meaning "hand") and the verb suescere ("to accustom" or "to become accustomed")
Sorry if cursing offends anyone. I couldn't resist. The Webster's definition is okay, but Buzzfeed wins on this one
Formal definition:
separation of parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words (such as what place soever for whatsoever place)
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Evidence shows that the adj. capricious debuted about 60 years before caprice; it's likely that both words derived via French from the Italian capriccio, which originally referred not to a sudden desire but a sudden shudder of fear. Capriccio derives from the Italian capo, meaning "head" & riccio, meaning "hedgehog." Someone who shuddered in fear, was said to have a "hedgehog head" meaning that their hair stood on end like the spines of a hedgehog
The word appears to have originated in the southern US. The earliest written record comes from an 1829 issue of The Virginia Literary Magazine in its glossary of Americanisms. The magazine states that hornswoggle came from KY, its oddness matches nicely w/ other 19th-century Americanisms, such as sockdolager, absquatulate, callithump, slumgullion, & skedaddle. It joins bamboozle and honeyfuggle as colorful ways to say "to deceive." #WordOfTheWeek
