The word for today is… amalgamate (verb) – 1. To combine into a unified or integrated whole; unite. 2. To mix or alloy (a metal) with mercury. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : The noun amalgam derives, by way of Middle French, from Medieval Latin amalgama. It was first used in the
The word for today is… sward (noun) – 1. Land covered with grassy turf. 2. A lawn or meadow. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : “Grass-covered ground,” circa 1300, from Old English sweard “skin, hide, rind” (of bacon, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *swarthu- (source also of Old Frisian swarde “skin of the head,
The word for today is… scrumptious (adj) – Greatly pleasing to the taste; delectable. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : First appearing in English in the early 1800s, scrumptious is a mouth-watering word that is used to describe what is delightful and delectable. It probably originated as an alteration of sumptuous, and
The word for today is… scorbutic (adj) – Of, relating to, resembling, or affected by scurvy. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : 1650s, from Modern Latin scorbuticus “pertaining to scurvy,” from scorbutus “scurvy,” from French scorbut, apparently of Dutch (scheurbuik) or Low German (Scharbock) origin; see scurvy. Scorbute “scurvy” is attested from
The word for today is… sashay (verb) – 1. (a) To walk or proceed, especially in an easy or casual manner. (b) To strut or flounce in a showy manner: sashaying around the dinner party in his fancy new clothes. 2. To perform the chassé in dancing. 3. To move in
The word for today is… rowel (noun) – A sharp-toothed wheel inserted into the end of the shank of a spur. (verb) – 1 To goad with or as if with a pointed disk at the end of a spur 2 Vex, trouble. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : If you’ve seen
The word for today is… pied piper (noun) – 1. A person who offers others strong yet delusive enticements. 2. One, such as a leader, who makes irresponsible promises. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : made popular in English in an 1842 poem by Robert Browning. ‘Pied’ comes from the Middle English
The word for today is… paramour (noun) – A lover, especially a lover of a person who is married to someone else. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Circa. 1300, noun use of adverbial phrase par amour (circa 1300) “passionately, with strong love or desire,” from Anglo-French and Old French par amour,
The word for today is… leman (noun) – (Archaic) 1. A sweetheart; a lover. 2. A mistress. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : “Sweetheart, paramour, loved one” (archaic), circa 1200, lemman, “loved one of the opposite sex; paramour, lover; wife;” also “a spiritually beloved one; redeemed soul, believer in Christ; female saint
The word for today is… nominalism (noun) – (Philosophy) The doctrine holding that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : 1820, “view that treats abstract concepts as names only, not realities,” from French nominalisme (1752), from nominal, from
The word for today is… moiety (noun) – 1. A half. 2. A part, portion, or share. 3. (Anthropology) Either of two kinship groups based on unilateral descent that together make up a tribe or society. 4. (Chemistry) A well-defined part of a larger molecule. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Moiety
The word for today is… hustle (verb) – 1. To move or act energetically. 2. To push or force one’s way. 3. To act aggressively, especially in business dealings. 4. (Slang) (a) To obtain something by deceitful or illicit means; practice theft or swindling. (b) To solicit customers. Used of
The word for today is… Gnosticism (noun) – The doctrines of various religious sects flourishing especially in the 2nd and 3rd centuries ad in the Near East, teaching that the material world is the imperfect creation of a subordinate power or powers rather than of the perfect and unknowable Divine Being,
The word for today is… fantod (noun) – 1. (fantods) (a) A state of nervous irritability. (b) Nervous movements caused by tension. 2. An outburst of emotion; a fit. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : “You have got strong symptoms of the fantods; your skin is so tight you can’t shut
The word for today is… epistemological (noun) – The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : “Theory of knowledge,” 1856, coined by Scottish philosopher James F. Ferrier (1808-1864) from Greek episteme “knowledge, acquaintance with (something)
The word for today is… gullible (adj) – Easily deceived or duped. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Don’t fall for anyone who tries to convince you that gullible isn’t entered in the dictionary. It’s right there, along with the run-on entries gullibility and gullibly. All three words descend
