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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-308/
- Published: 2025-06-11T18:15:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-11T18:15:48.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

fester (verb, noun): 

*verb*

1: to generate pus

2: putrefy, rot

3a: to cause increasing poisoning, irritation, or bitterness : rankle

b: to undergo or exist in a state of progressive deterioration

*noun*

: a suppurating sore : pustule

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

Etymology : Both noun and verb forms of the English word fester come from the Latin noun fistula, meaning “pipe” or, less pleasantly, “fistulous ulcer.” Accordingly, the noun fester refers to a sore that forms or discharges pus, while the oldest sense of the verb fester means “to generate pus.” A boil, for example, is a festering infection of a hair follicle. Over time, the verb—as many words do—picked up a figurative sense, and fester began to be used not only for the worsening of a wound but for a worsening state, situation, etc.

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