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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1025/
- Published: 2022-11-19T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-15T19:05:44.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

The word for today is…

rancid (adjective):

1 : having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition  
2 : distinctly unpleasant or distasteful : offensive

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rancid?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology :Rancid and putrid and fetid. While all three words are used to describe unpleasant smells and tastes, each also traces its roots to a “stinky” Latin word: rancid can be traced back to the Latin rancere; the root of putrid shares an ancestor with putere; and fetid comes from foetere—all verbs meaning “to stink.” Not long after entering the language in the early 17th century, rancid also developed a second, figurative sense which is used for non-gustatory and non-olfactory offenses, as in “rancid hypocrisy.”

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