Word Of The Day

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Happy.

[alfinyalcabo]

Relieved

[gogogadgetlegs]

Boyd
To be speechless, as in to have no comeback in a cus fight, or when a teacher is talking to you, and you know he is right and just stand there. That is getting boyd.
Arunyath: " Yo man! Jack got boyd by Mr. Schaefer!"

Steve: "No way man! How embarrasing!!!"

Arunyath: "Yeah initt!"

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amelioration
[uh-meel-yuh-rey-shuh n, uh-mee-lee-uh-]

noun
1.
an act or instance of ameliorating or making better; the state of being ameliorated or made better:
the amelioration of working conditions.
2.
something that ameliorates; an improvement.

[Altobelli]

FANFARONADE noun (fan-fer-uh-neyd)

noun
1. bragging; bravado; bluster.

Quotes

"... I'll keep it so well that it will arrive at its destination, I swear to you, and woe to him who tries to take it from me!" M. de Treville smiled at this fanfaronade ...
--*Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870),*The Three Musketeers, translated by Richard Pevear, 2006

"I mean, that sometimes you baffle me by the fanfaronade behind your foolish words."
--*Raphael Sabatini,*The Black Swan, 1932


Origin

There is an unclear connection between fanfaronade and fanfare, both of which came into English from French fanfaronnade (a derivative of fanfaron “braggart”) and fanfare “flourish of trumpets” (some authorities say that French fanfare is of imitative origin). French fanfaronnade came from Spanish fanfarronada “bluster, bluff,” and French fanfaron from Spanish fanfarrón “braggart.” If French fanfare is not of imitative origin, then it could well come from Spanish fanfarria “fanfare, arrogance.” The three Spanish words are of obscure origin; they may come from Arabic farfār “talkative, loquacious.” Fanfaronade entered English in the 17th century.

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KENNING noun (ken-ing)

noun
1. a conventional poetic phrase used for or in addition to the usual name of a person or thing, especially in Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon verse, as “a wave traveler” for “a boat.”

Quotes

The most admired kennings were derived from Norse myth and literature. For example, a kenning for gold was "Sif's hair," referring to a myth in which Loki cut off Sif's hair as a cruel joke, and the dwarves made her new hair out of gold.
--*Graeme Davis,*Thor: Viking God of Thunder, 2013

"Word meadow is a kenning for tongue," she explains. "And I suppose now you'll want to know what a kenning is....A kenning is a different name for a thing. Instead of calling the sun the sun, you call it a day-star."
--*Christina Sunley,*The Tricking of Freya, 2009


Origin

Kenning, an Old Norse (more properly, Old Icelandic) technical term in poetic composition, means “poetic periphrasis, descriptive compound.” The term seems to have been first used by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), Iceland’s most distinguished man of letters. Students of Old English and Old Norse poetry are very familiar with kennings, e.g., these four kennings for ship: in Beowulf, sǽgenga “sea-goer,” ýthlida “wave-crosser”; in Icelandic poetry, branda elgr “elk of beaks” (i.e., a ship with its two ends projecting out like an elk’s horns) or báru fákr “wave-horse.” Kenning in this sense entered English in the 19th century.

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Yogibogeybox
NOUN

rare, figurative, appreciative
A room or place in which spiritualism is practiced or studied; (hence figurative) spiritualism as a philosophy or belief.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Yogibogeybox reminds me of my younger sister's front room!

She's right into the spiritualism malarkey!

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Yogibogeybox reminds me of my younger sister's front room!

She's right into the spiritualism malarkey!

I should have seen that coming !!

[Altobelli]

INVETERATE adjective (in-vet-er-it)

adjective
1. settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
2. firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic.

Quotes
Thus Frédéric soon became an inveterate gambler: he passed the greater part of his evenings at cards, and finished them elsewhere.
--*Émile Zola,*Naïs Micoulin, translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, 1884

It was an ideal wintering home in every respect but one: it was owned by the Turlocks, the most inveterate hunters of Maryland, each member of the family born with an insatiable appetite for goose.
--*James A. Michener,*Chesapeake, 1978


Origin

Inveterate comes from the Latin verb inveterāre “to grow old,” a derivative of the adjective vet(us) “old.” Latin vet- is related to Greek ét-os (Doric wét-os) “year” with its derivative etḗsios “yearly” (cf. “etesian winds”). The Latin nouns vitellus and vitulus “calf, bull calf, yearling” are also derivatives of vet(us). The Latin name for Italy, Italia, has the rare form *****ia (cf. Oscan VÃ*teliú), both of which are from Greek italós (Doric witalós) “bull,” because Italy was rich in cattle. Inveterate entered English in the 16th century.