Category: Word of the Day
Daily posts of an individual word study
Word of the Day: Wistful
Today’s Word of the Day, thanks to the Word Genius website, is wistful. Wistful, according to Word Genius, means “Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing.” According […]
Word of the Day: Mutable
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Bronx Chronicle, is mutable, an adjective meaning “Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature…changeable” (https://thebronxchronicle.com/). According to www.dictionary.com, it means, “liable or subject to change or alteration; given […]
Word of the Day: Villain
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Swynfen Jervis’s A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare, is villain, a noun meaning a servant or a slave, according to Jervis. He […]
Word of the Day: Diplomacy
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary, is the noun diplomacy. Diplomacy means, “1. the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between […]
Word of the Day: Love
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary (Walter Neale, 1911), is love. The website www.etymonline.com has three paragraphs on the word: “Old English lufu ‘feeling of love; […]
Word of the Day: Gimcrack
Today’s word of the day, thanks to A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare by Swynfen Jervis (John Russell Smith, 1868, p. 143) is gimcrack. A gimcrack is, according to […]
Word of the Day: Advice
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Foolish Dictionary by Gideon Wurdz, is advice. Advice is a noun which, according to www.dictionary.com, means 1. “an opinion or recommendation offered […]
Word of the Day: Affable
Today’s word of the day, thanks to The Worth of Words by Dr. Ralcy Husted Bell (Grafton Press, 1902), is affable. According to www.dictionary.com, affable means “pleasantly easy to approach […]
Word of the Day: Gallimaufry
Today’s word of the day is gallimaufry, a noun meaning “a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley,” or “a ragout or hash,” according to www.dictionary.com. According to www.etymonline.com, the word first appeared […]
Word of the Day: Valediction
Today’s word of the day, thanks to WordGenius.com, is valediction, a noun that means “The action of saying farewell,” or “The word or phrase used to close out a letter […]
Word of the Day: Chevalier
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day at the WordGenious website, is chevalier, which is a noun that means “A chivalrous man, one having qualities of courtesy, […]
Word of the Day: Bifurcate
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of WordThink.com, is bifurcate, a verb that means to “Divide into two branches or forks.” According to www.etymonline.com, the word entered the English language […]