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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1080/
- Published: 2023-01-14T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-10T20:34:26.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

The word for today is…

catercorner (adverb, adjective):

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

Etymology :Catercorner gets its first element from the Middle French noun quatre, meaning “four,” which English speakers modified to cater and applied to the four-dotted side of a die—a side important in several winning combinations in dice games. Perhaps because the four spots on a die can suggest an X, cater eventually came to be used dialectically with the meaning of “diagonal” or “diagonally”; cater was then combined with corner to form catercorner. Despite all appearances, the term bears no etymological relation to our feline friends.

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