the worthless word for the day is: wesort [probably from we sort (i.e., our sort)] usually capitalized one of a group of people of mixed white-black-Indian ...
the worthless word for the day is: wegotism [jocular blend of we + egotism] an obtrusive and too frequent use of the editorial we "Dr. Dwight," said an...
the worthless word for the day is: bimanous [fr. L. bimanus or F. bimane] /BI meh nehs/ (also bimanal) having two hands: two-handed "Even in these enlightened...
the worthless word for the day is: indign [fr. L. indignus, not worthy] /in DINE/ 1) archaic : unworthy, undeserving 2) obs. : shameful, disgraceful Let...
the worthless word for the day is: aurify [f. L. aurum, gold + -fy] to turn into gold "..and so are the future guineas that now lie ripening and aurifying in...
the worthless word for the day is: chatmate [fr. chat + mate] obs. rare : a gossip "By the sea-side on the other side stood Hero's tower.. that is not so wide...
the worthless word for the day is: imprescriptible [F] not subject to prescription: inalienable; also, absolute "..the natural and imprescriptible rights of...
the worthless word for the day is: agible [ad. L. agibilis, fr. agere : to do] obs. : feasible; practicable "In my first years, my friends bestowed on me those...
the worthless word for the day is: carriwitchet [origin unknown] /kar eh WICH et/ a hoaxing or riddling question; a pun, quibble "I find the carriwitchet...
the worthless word for the day is: boak chiefly Scot. (also bolk) [v] to belch; to vomit [n] a belch, an eructation "I think it was at this moment that...
the classic worthless word for the day is: hexerei [Pennsylvania German, fr. G. Hexe, witch] /hek seh RYE/ witchcraft "Never in my life have I seen a shop...
the worthless word for the day is: sevocation [fr. L. sevocare, to call aside] /sev uh KAY shun/ obs. rare a calling apart or aside <a discreet sevocation of...
the worthless word for the day is: paradiastole [L. paradiastole, putting together of dissimilar things] /PAR eh DI es teli/ Rhet. : a figure of speech in...
the worthless word for the day is: lychnobite [fr. Gk lychnos, lamp + bios, life] /LIK no bite/ obs. rare one who labors at night and sleeps by day; one who...
the worthless word for the day is: ombibulous [coined by H. L. Mencken; ultimately fr. L. imbibere, to drink in + omni, all] referring to someone who drinks...
the worthless word for the day is: witticaster [fr. wit or witty, after criticaster; fr. L. -aster, expressing incomplete resemblance] nonce-wd : a petty or...
the worthless word for the day is: viaggiatory [f. It. viaggiare to travel] (nonce-wd in Medwin, appropriated by Wolfe) [adj] on the move; given to traveling...
the worthless word for the day is: squadoosh Italian-American slang used to describe something that is missing, absent, or forgotten; zero, nil, nothing ""I...
the worthless word for the day is: mordacious [fr. L. mordax < mordere, to bite + Eng. -ious] /mo(r) DAY shus/ 1) biting or given to biting 2) biting or sharp...
the worthless word for the day is: hesitude [fr. L. haes- (< haerere, to hold fast) + -tude] obs. rare : doubtfulness I'm feeling some hesitude about today's...
the worthless word for the day is: glaver [fr. M. Eng. glaveren] obs. : to talk in a deceitfully kind or pleasant manner: flatter "Those who will glaver upon...
the worthless word for the day is: pulverulent [L, pulverulentus; from pulver-, dust + -ulentus, abounding in] /pul VER yuh lent/ consisting of or reducible...
the worthless word for the day is: topos [Gk, short for (koinos) topos, (common)place] /TOE pos/ a stock rhetorical theme or topic; a literary convention "It...
the worthless word for the day is: inadequation [in- + L. adaequare] archaic want of equivalence or exact correspondence see Brock's translation of Eco,...
the worthless word for the day is: vespillo [a. L. vespillo; fr. vesper, evening] also vespillon obs. rare : he that carries forth dead bodies in the night to...
the worthless word for the day is: grangerism [fr. James Granger who published a 'Biographical History of England', with blank leaves for the reception of...
the worthless word for the day is: pulicous [ad. L. pulicos-us, fr. pulex : flea] (erroneously, pulicious) archaic : abounding with fleas; fleay so, pulicose :...
the worthless word for the day is: avolate [fr. L. avolare, to fly off or away] obs. to fly away, escape, exhale, evaporate "Lo! through the scant casement of...
the worthless word for the day is: trebuchet [fr. OF trebucher, to overthrow] also trebucket /treb yeh SHET/ or /treb eh KET/ a medieval catapult, a heavy...
the worthless word for the day is: noctuary [fr. L. noctu, by night + Eng. -ary; after diary] archaic : a journal of nocturnal incidents "It stands thus in a...
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