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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1495/
- Published: 2024-03-03T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-29T21:41:26.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

The word for today is…

sangfroid (noun):

: self-possession or imperturbability especially under strain

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

Etymology : Sangfroid comes from the French term sang-froid, which literally translates as “cold blood.” When describing amphibians and reptiles, cold-blooded means “having a body temperature that is similar to the temperature of the environment,” but to dub a person cold-blooded is to say that the person shows no sympathy or mercy to others. By the mid-1700s, English speakers had been using cold-blooded to describe the ruthless among them for more than a century, but in sangfroid they found a way to put a positive spin on the idea of ice in the veins: they borrowed the French term to describe the quality of someone who keeps their composure under strain—that is, not a “cold fish” or “icicle” but someone who is cool as a cucumber

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