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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-693/
- Published: 2021-12-22T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-21T17:48:56.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

The word for today is…

gossamer (noun, adjective):

*noun*  
1 : a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather  
2 : something light, delicate, or insubstantial

*adjective*  
:extremely light, delicate, or tenuous

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

Etymology : In the days of Middle English, a period of mild weather in late autumn or early winter was sometimes called a “gossomer,” literally “goose summer.” People may have chosen that name for a late-season warm spell because October and November were the months when people felt that geese were at their best for eating. “Gossomer” was also used in Middle English as a word for filmy cobwebs floating through the air in calm clear weather, apparently because somebody thought the webs looked like the down of a goose. This sense eventually inspired the adjective “gossamer,” which means “light, delicate, or tenuous” – just like cobwebs or goose down.

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