Word Of The Day

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Yes we will have to call him Stravage Boyd from now on

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CANARD noun (kuh-nahrd)

noun
1. a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
2. Cookery. a duck intended or used for food.
3. Aeronautics. a. an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing. b. Also called canard wing. one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings. c. an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.

Quotes

This week, Lewandowski distinguished himself by reviving the birther canard—the thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
--*Margaret Talbot,*"The Trouble with Corey Lewandowski on CNN," The New Yorker, August 6, 2016

In London that night poor Henderson's telegram describing the gradual unscrewing of the shot was judged to be a canard, and his evening paper, after wiring for authentication from him and receiving no reply ... decided not to print a special edition.
--*H. G. Wells,*The War of the Worlds, 1898


Origin

Canard is from Old French quanart “drake,” literally “cackler,” from the onomatopoeic caner “to cackle” and the suffix -art, a variant of -ard, as in mallard or braggart. Canard is all that is left of the Middle French idiom vendre un canard Ã* moitié “to sell half a duck,” i.e., “to take in, swindle, cheat.” Canard entered English in the 19th century.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

That bloody TEC with his TAXI rumours and canards.

Glad to see the back of him!

Wonder if he got a ...

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LUCIFEROUS adjective (loo-sif-er-uh s)

adjective
1. bringing or providing light.
2. providing insight or enlightenment.

Quotes
An illumination on so vast a scale could be kept up only by the inexhaustible magazine of ether disseminated through space, and ever ready to manifest its luciferous properties on large spheres, whose attraction renders it sufficiently dense for the play of chemical affinity.
--*D. Vaughan,*"On the Light of Suns, Meteors, and Temporary Stars," Report on the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1858

I took a vial, containing some luciferous matter, that was not apt to shine long at a time; and being well stopp'd, I kept it till the flame, or light within it, expired ...
--*Robert Boyle,*The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Volume 3, 1725


Origin
Luciferous comes from Latin lūcifer “morning star,” literally, “light-bringing.” It entered English in the mid-1600s.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Sounds a lot like TEC to me!

[Altobelli]

That bloody TEC with his TAXI rumours and canards.

Glad to see the back of him!

Wonder if he got a ...

Sounds a lot like TEC to me!

This TEC sounds like a right @rsehole Terrier.

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HEART-WHOLE adjective (hahrt-hohl)

adjective
1. not in love.
2. wholehearted; sincere.

Quotes
... it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant him heart-whole.
--*William Shakespeare,*As You Like It, 1623

"What," said he, "have I flirted with so many girls in my own way of life, and come away heart-whole, and now to fall in love with a gentlewoman, who would bid her footman show me the door if she knew of my presumption!"
--*Charles Reade,*Put Yourself in His Place, 1870


Origin

Heart-whole came to English in the 1400s from late Middle English.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I know a few arseholes if that helps?

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Inaniloquent

Pertaining to idle talk, tending to speak inanely; loquacious; garrulous

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Inaniloquent

Pertaining to idle talk, tending to speak inanely; loquacious; garrulous

Alf, this one sounds a lot like you!