The word for today is… stratagem (noun) – 1. A scheme or manoeuvre designed to achieve an objective, as in surprising an enemy or deceiving someone. See Synonyms at wile. 2. The devising or execution of such schemes or maneuvers: Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : A stratagem is any clever scheme—
The word for today is… shot-clog (noun) – A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : The shot in shot-clog refers to a charge to be paid. It’s a cousin
The word for today is… annals (noun) – 1. A chronological record of the events of successive years. 2. A descriptive account or record; a history. 3. A periodical journal in which the records and reports of a learned field are compiled. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : “Chronicle of events year-by-year,
The word for today is… scavenger (noun) – 1. An animal, such as a vulture or housefly, that feeds on dead or decaying matter. 2. One that scavenges, as a person who searches through refuse for useful items. 3. (Chemistry) A substance added to a mixture to remove or inactivate impurities.
By the Blonde This advertisement, full page, on the back of this morning’s Canvas magazine which comes with the Herald, is almost beyond belief! How many people would have been involved with the making of the ad? And, no-one picked up the error? ‘Your‘, when it should have been
The word for today is… borne (verb) – A past participle of bear (adj) – 1. Carried or transported by 2. Transmitted by. Often used in combination. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Borne is, just like born, the past participle of the verb bear, which can mean (among other things) “to contain”
The word for today is… apposite (adj) – Appropriate or relevant. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Apposite and opposite sound so much alike that you would expect them to have a common ancestor—and they do. It is the Latin verb ponere, which means “to put or place.” Adding the prefix
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,
