Tag: language
Word of the Day: Rubricate
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Word of the Day app from Aurora Technologies, is rubricate, a verb meaning to “mark or color with red.” The app says […]
Word of the Day: Frore
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Word of the Day app, is frore, an adjective meaning “frosty, frozen.” According to www.etymonline.com, the word is “archaic (but found in poetry […]
Word of the Day: Boxing Day
Today’s Word of the Day is actually a two-word phrase, Boxing Day. If you are a fan of English football, you know that Boxing Day is the day after Christmas, […]
Word of the Day: Crèche
Today’s Word of the Day is crèche, courtesy of the The Dictionary Project. Crèche can refer to According to www.etymonline.com, the meaning of Christmas manger scene first appears in 1792, […]
Word of the Day: Indolent
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of the Word of the Day app, is indolent. According to the app, indolent is an adjective meaning “showing a tendency to avoid hard […]
Word of the Day: Garrulous
Originally named Shibe Stadium, was the home of the Athletics from 1909 through 1954, then the Phillies from 1938 to 1970, sharing it with the A’s from 1938 to 1954.
The Eagles shared the park as well from 1940 through 1957.
The Athletics were in 7 World Series during their tenure at the stadium: 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1929, 1930 and 1931. Winning in 1911, 1929 and 1930.
The Phillies were in 1 World Series during their tenure at the stadium, the 1950 World Series.They lost that series to the Yankees.–from ballpark junkie
Word of the Day: Facinorous
Today’s word of the day is facinorous, courtesy of a Reader’s Digest webpage called “10 Old-Fashioned Words That Make You Sound Smart,” updated March 7, 2022 (https://www.rd.com/list/old-fashioned-words-sound-smart/). It is an […]
Word of the Day: Gloaming
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of Webster’s, is gloaming. Gloaming is a noun that means twilight or dusk. Webster’s describes it as a literary term referring to the darker […]
Word of the Day: Sandbag
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Webster’s Dictionary, is sandbag. I’m going to skip the formal definitions, which you can probably figure out, and just right to the informal […]
Word of the Day: Arbitrate
Today’s word is arbitrate, courtesy of the NY Times, and it means “to settle a dispute between parties with the goal of reconciling differences.” According to etymonline.com, the word first […]
Word of the Day: Augur
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of Merriam-Webster, is augur. The verb means to “show or suggest, especially from omens, that something might happen in the future” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day). It is […]
Word of the Day: Boojum
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary, boojum, a word coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem The Hunting of the Snark. The poem was originally […]