Shot´-clog`
Noun
DEFINITION-
| A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them. Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies.- Chapman. |
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Word of the Week
fecund
[ fee-kuhnd, -kuh nd, fek-uhnd, –uh nd ]
adjective
producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland.very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.
RELATED WORDS
breeding, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, prolific, rich, teeming, spawning, fructiferous
Origin of fecund
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fēcundus, equivalent to fē- (see fetus) + -cundus adj. suffix; replacing late Middle English fecounde < Anglo-FrenchRelated formsnon·fe·cund, adjectiveun·fe·cund, adjective
Word of the Week(Unusual)
agastopia
n. – admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
Example sentences
“This agastopia I have for your neck renders me insensate.”
“Have you ever noticed his agastopia? He cannot raise his eyes above waist level when a particularly callipygian woman walks by.”
Word of the Week
Treacle
trea·cle[ˈtrēk(ə)l]NOUN
treacles (plural noun) BRITISHa
thick, sticky dark syrup made from partly refined sugar; molasses. cloying sentimentality or flattery.” enough of this treacle—let’s get back to business
“ORIGIN”
Middle English (originally denoting an antidote against venom): from Old French triacle, via Latin from Greek thēriakē ‘antidote against venom’, feminine of thēriakos (adjective), from thērion ‘wild beast British
Current senses date from the late 17th century.
Word of the Week
con·cin·ni·ty
Pronounced~[kənˈsinədē]
NOUN rare – the skillful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something. studied elegance of literary or artistic style.
ORIGIN mid 16th century: from Latin concinnitas, from concinnus ‘skillfully put together’.
Word Of The Week
ob·fus·cate
[ˈäbfəˌskāt]
VERB
obfuscates (third person present) · obfuscated (past tense) · obfuscated (past participle) · obfuscating (present participle)
render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
“the spelling changes will deform some familiar words and obfuscate their etymological origins”
synonyms:
obscure · confuse · make obscure/unclear · blur · muddle · jumble · complicate · garble · muddy · cloud · befog · muddy the waters
antonyms:
clarify
bewilder (someone).
“it is more likely to obfuscate people than enlighten them”
synonyms:
bewilder · mystify · puzzle · perplex · baffle · confound · bemuse · befuddle · nonplus · flummox · wilder · maze · gravel
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from late Latin obfuscat- ‘darkened’, from the verb obfuscare, based on Latin fuscus ‘dark’.
Word of the week
con·stel·late
[ˈkänstəlāt]
VERB
literary
constellates (third person present) · constellated (past tense) · constellated (past participle) · constellating (present participle)
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form or cause to form into a cluster or group; gather together.“the towns and valleys where people constellate” · “their stories were never constellated”
ORIGIN
mid 17th century: from late Latin constellatus, from con- ‘together’ + stellatus ‘arranged like a star’.
Word of the Week
ne·cro·sis
[neˈkrōsəs]
NOUN
medicine
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the death of most or all of the cells in an organ or tissue due to disease, injury, or failure of the blood supply.
ORIGIN
mid 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek nekrōsis (see necro-, -osis).
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