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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-392/
- Published: 2021-02-22T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-12T00:28:10.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

The word for today is…

phlegmatic (adjective) –  
1 : resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm  
2 : having or showing a slow and stolid temperament

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

Etymology : According to the ancient Greeks, human personalities were controlled by four bodily fluids or semifluids called humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. Each humor was associated with one of the four basic elements: air, earth, fire, and water. Phlegm was paired with water—the cold, moist element—and it was believed to impart the cool, calm, unemotional personality we now call the “phlegmatic type.” That’s a bit odd, given that the term derives from the Greek phlegma, which literally means “flame,” perhaps a reflection of the inflammation that colds and flus often bring.

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