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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-843/
- Published: 2022-05-21T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-03-27T19:39:48.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

The word for today is…

skirmish (noun, verb):  
*noun*  
1 : a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements  
2a : a brisk preliminary verbal conflict  
b : a minor dispute or contest between opposing parties

*verb*  
1 : to engage in a skirmish  
2 : to search about (as for supplies

Source : [Online Etymology Dictionary](https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=skirmish&ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : late 14c., from Old French escarmouche “skirmish,” from Italian scaramuccia, earlier schermugio, probably from a Germanic source (compare Old High German skirmen “to protect, defend”), with a diminutive or depreciatory suffix, from Proto-Germanic skerm – to cut. Influenced in Middle English by a separate verb skirmysshen “to brandish a weapon,” from Old French eskirmiss-, stem of eskirmir “to fence,” from Frankish skirmjan, from the same Germanic source. First known use was in the 14th century

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