the worthless word for the day is: chartopaigniologist [fr. Gk charte[s], a sheet of paper + pagnios, playful + -ologist, person who studies] nonce word : an...
the worthless word for the day is: violaceous [L. violaceus, violet-colored] of a violet color, bluish purple "(his prose frequently begins as lavender and...
the worthless word for the day is: importunity wwftd has quite a wide web presence today; in addition to the original web site, the daily word is available via...
the worthless word for the day is: moider [origin uncertain] /MOI dur/ Irish & Brit. dial. (also moither, etc.) [tv] 1) to perplex, bewilder 2) to distract,...
the worthless word for the day is: tralatitious [fr. L. tralatio, a transporting or transferring] /tra luh TISH us/ 1) characterized by transference;...
the worthless word for the day is: gry [fr. Gk gru, grunt of a pig; dirt under the nail] obs. : anything of little value, as the paring of the nails {Johnson,...
the worthless word for the day is: lusk [origin uncertain] idle, lazy, worthless {Johnson, 1822) "The lapses of lusk water heard apart, As in a dream are...
the worthless word for the day is: Thalian [pertaining to Thalia, the muse of comedy] of the nature of comedy; comic this week: more eponyms "The Thalian...
the worthless word for the day is: Oblomovian [fr. Ivan Goncharov's novel, Oblomov] characterized by sloth or lassitude (see also Oblomovism, sluggish inertia)...
the worthless word for the day is: Zoilist [after Zoilus, Gk critic famous for criticism of Homer] a carping critic "My fashion's known; out rhyme, tak't as...
the worthless word for the day is: heisenbug [after Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle] Programming jargon : a software bug that alters its behavior or...
the worthless word for the day is: mussitate [fr. L. mussitare, to mutter] obs. : to mutter "'Oh, Anu, I never thought to see you again,' he mussitates. (I...
the worthless word for the day is: myrmidonize [myrmidon + -ize] obs. rare : to make hard, to harden "Besides, she hath steeled my soft impressive heart, and...
the worthless word for the day is: omniscian [fr. L. omniscius + -an] obs. rare : a person who knows, or professes to know, everything "[A]nd say not but...
the worthless word for the day is: pernickety [origin unknown] chiefly Brit. : characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; fussy,...
the worthless word for the day is: obnixely [fr. L. obnixus: strenuous, resolute] obs. rare : earnestly, strenuously cf. obnixiously (not to be confused w....
the worthless word for the day is: nomothetic [fr. Gk nomothetikos, of legislation] /nom uh THET ik/ relating to law; based in general laws "Is musicology.. a...
the worthless word for the day is: enturbulate [coined by L. Ron Hubbard, prob. fr. turbulent/disturbed] used as a shibboleth by Scientologists : to disturb; ...
the worthless word for the day is: hedgehoggy [hedgehog + -y] having a prickly nature, of a forbidding appearance or manner; tending to arouse aversion (hence,...
the worthless word for the day is: frostification jocular : the process of becoming frosty (this week: nonsense and jokes) "..a certain frostification in...
the worthless word for the day is: stupex [fr. stupid] jocular, obs. : a fool "The light of nature would show that to any one but a stupex." - Charlotte Mary...
the worthless word for the day is: hackette [hack + -ette] a jocular or disparaging term for a female journalist "I, innocent hackette on my first foreign...
the worthless word for the day is: contrafibularities [fr. contra-, against + fibula, a bone in the lower leg] while sounding congratulatory, the elements...
the worthless word for the day is: legerity [fr. F. legereté, lightness (fr. L. leviarius?] /luh JER ud ee/ agility of mind or of limb: nimbleness "This is...
the worthless word for the day is: orexis [Gk orexis, desire] /aw REK sis/ Psych. : the aspect of mental activity concerned with emotion and desire rather...
the worthless word for the day is: Sprachgefuhl [G., fr. sprache speech + gefuhl feeling] /SHPRAKH guh fyl/ an intuitive grasp of the spirit of a language,...
the worthless word for the day is: humectation [fr. L. (h)umecto, to moisten] /hyu mek TAY shun/ archaic : the act or process of moistening or wetting; ...
the worthless word for the day is: humicubation [fr. L. humi, on the ground + cubare, to lie down] /hyu mik yoo BAY shun/ obs., rare lying on the ground,...
the worthless word for the day is: obluctation [fr. L. obluctari, to offer resistance] obs. rare : the action of striving or struggling against something 'a...
the worthless word for the day is: villatic [fr. L. villaticus, of a country house < villa] /vi LAD ik/ of a farm or village: rural, rustic And as an evening...
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