Word Of The Day

[warminsterclaret]

Gray was playing non league not that long ago. He'll come good.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

He looks to me like he has lost the desire and that baffles me Warminster.

I have always been one of his greatest advocates but just lately he has let himself down, his teammates and me personally!

[outwoodclaret]

Gor gone Zola. Noun. A blue Italian cheese that crumbled and disintegrated in the Midlands.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I could not understand why they sacked Gary Rowett in the first place.

[warminsterclaret]

Gor gone Zola. Noun. A blue Italian cheese that crumbled and disintegrated in the Midlands.

Very good outwood. I would have used the like button had there been one!

[Altobelli]

AVARICE noun (av-er-is)

noun
1. insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.

Quotes

The most ancient and natural grounds of quarrels are lust and avarice; which, though we may allow to be brethren, or collateral branches of pride, are certainly the issues of want.
--*Jonathan Swift,*"The Battle of the Books, " A Tale of a Tub, 1704

The 22-minute film is a punchy, slick-looking satire of the Los Angeles yoga world, one in which the path to enlightenment is often paved with as much greed and avarice as serenity.
--*Ann Hornaday,*"'Down Dog': Tweaking Yoga's Poseurs," The Washington Post, March 3, 2005


Origin

Avarice entered English in the 1200s, at the time when Middle English was spoken. It comes from an Old French term, which finds its roots in the Latin word avār(us) “greedy.”

[Altobelli]

KERFUFFLE noun (ker-fuhf-uh l)

noun
1. Chiefly British Informal. a fuss; commotion.

Quotes

... I speculated that Larsson ... might have “overcaffeinated himself to death.” This caused quite a kerfuffle among Times readers. Swedes, Swedish-Americans and residents of Swedish-American neighborhoods wrote in to say that round-the-clock coffee consumption was utterly normal in Sweden and in Swedish enclaves, nothing “pathological” about it.
--*David Kamp,*"Stieg Larsson's Coffee Mania, Revisited," New York Times, June 21, 2011

... the past few weeks have seen a paroxysm of advice-giving from scientists to the White House ... Why the kerfuffle? Probably because many scientists didn't care too much for the scientific advice that President Reagan had.
--*Feedback: From the AAAS," New Scientist, January 28, 1989


Origin

Kerfuffle entered English in the mid-1900s from Scots curfuffle. Cur- comes from Scots Gaelic car “to twist, turn,” from Old Irish cor “a turn.” Fuffle is a word of imitative origin meaning “to disorder, confuse.”

[The Bedlington Terrier]

As in there is a right kerfuffle going on at Old Trafford on the lines of, "Keane, how much?" OMG what did we let LVG do?

[Acido]

My word of the day Alto is BURNSLEY. Its one of my favourite words on Footymad and I think we should all use/post it more often. And spare a thought for its poorer brother BARNLEY, nobody likes that do they.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

FFS Acido don't confuse the BBC anymore? I can just imagine their reaction to a third round FA Cup draw, "Sean Dyche's Burnsley have an attractive home draw at Turf Moor to long time Yorkshire rivals Barnley".