the worthless word for the day is: pilpul [fr. Heb. pilpel, to search, argue] /PIL pool/ ... scholars on talmudic subjects ... so, pilpulistic : characterized...
the worthless word for the day is: tohubohu [fr. Heb. tohu, confusion + bohu, emptiness] /TOW hu BOW hu/ chaos, confusion "But of [man's] latent capacity for...
the worthless word for the day is: shammes [fr. Hebrew shamash, servant] /SHAH mes/ (rhymes with promise) Yiddish 1) the sexton or caretaker of a synagogue ...
the worthless word for the day is: volitant [fr. L. volitare, to fly to and fro] /VOL i tnt/ 1) flying or capable of flying 2) moving about rapidly, to and...
the worthless word for the day is: aposematic [fr. Gk apo-, away from + sema, sign] Zool : being conspicuous and serving to warn (applied to coloration of...
the worthless word for the day is: redeless [fr. G. rede + -less] archaic : without counsel or advice; foolish, heedless; resourceless, perplexed, confused ...
the worthless word for the day is: zyxt [fr. Kentish zi, ze : to see] obs. Kentish : thou seest (also zixt, zist) "'Zyxt' will be the last word in the New...
the worthless word for the day is: zythum [fr. Gk zuthos, beer] /ZAI thum/ in ancient Egypt: a kind of malt beer (much of the word's continuing use is due to ...
the worthless word for the day is: fremescent [fr. L. fremere, to roar] /fre MES ent/ archaic, rare : murmuring, growing noisy and indignant "Thuriot shows...
the worthless word for the day is: antipriscianisticall [fr. Priscian-us, a celebrated Roman grammarian] obs. nonce-word : ungrammatical "Againe he was...
the worthless word for the day is: huckery (today's word is esp. for Stuart in NZ..) [fr. huckster, or origin unknown] 1) obs. ME : the business of a huckster...
the worthless word for the day is: flamfew [corruption of F. fanfelue(?)] also flamefew, Sc. flamfoo obs. rare 1) a gewgaw, trifle, trinket 2) Naut. :...
the worthless word for the day is: plumpendicular [blend of plumb line + perpendicular (fr. L. pendeo, to hang)] obs. dial. : perpendicular (to the ground);...
the worthless word for the day is: flapadosha [origin unknown] an eccentric, showy, superficial person "Need some verbal firepower to flatten an obnoxious ...
the worthless word for the day is: crumenically [fr. L. crumena, purse] humorous nonce-word : in relation to the purse; related to money "A Work.. in which I...
the worthless word for the day is: energumenist [fr. Gk energoumenos, possessed by an evil spirit] obs. rare : one possessed by demons "The meerly passive be...
the worthless word for the day is: impigrity [fr. im- + L. piger : slow, dull, sluggish] obs. rare : quickness; diligence The omni parent of all arts am I, My...
the worthless word for the day is: infrendiate [fr. L. infrendere] obs. rare : to gnash the teeth "As everyone knows, the words marked obsolete or archaic in...
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: contrafibularities [fr. contra-, against + fibula, a bone in the lower leg] while sounding congratulatory, the elements...
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: 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: frostification jocular : the process of becoming frosty (this week: nonsense and jokes) "..a certain frostification in...
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