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Word of the Day, facts and observations on language, lookup trends, and wordplay from the editors at Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
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One painting: 'still life'
Many paintings: 'still lifes'
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Some post-Big Game vocabulary:
'Crapulence' - sickness occasioned by intemperance (as in food or drink)
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Early football fields were marked in a grid pattern rather than parallel lines, which led to the nickname 'gridiron' (previously a type of grill grate used for torture). merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/…
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Happy Marmota Monax Day!
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Folks, these were your words of the week.
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📈'Perfidy': the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal; treachery
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'Drunkery' (essentially meaning “place where one gets drunk”) has been in use since the early 19th century. merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/…
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'Cheeseparer' - a skinflint
'Quakebuttock' - a coward
'Bumblepuppist' - a bad whist player
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"If you're partial to flat adverbs, you can take comfort in the fact that history—and the dictionary—is on your side. You may even decide to ignore the competing -ly versions entire."
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calumny
blindside
rube
pandemic
A look at the words from this last week of January:
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Halo
Aureole
Moon dog
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We're running a 2-for-1 special on words today:
'Misologist' - one given to misology (a hatred of argument, reasoning, or enlightenment) merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/…
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'Throttlebottom' (an innocuously inept and futile person in public office) comes from the name of a character in the 1931 musical 'Of Thee I Sing.' merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/…
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Happy 100th birthday to these words!
(Or, from the English language's perspective, these *children*.)
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