Word of the day

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Friday, October 2, 2009

incarnadine \in-KAR-nuh-dyn\, adjective:

1. Having a fleshy pink color.
2. Red; blood-red.

transitive verb:
1. To make red or crimson.

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
-- Shakespeare, Macbeth

[2jules7]

The Zombies had a incarnadine stain on their skin.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Saturday, October 3, 2009

raffish \RAF-ish\, adjective:

1. Characterized by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity, crudeness, or rowdiness; tawdry.
2. Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; rakish.

The speaker was in his forties, an attractive-looking man with a black eye patch that gave him the raffish look of an amiable pirate.
-- Sidney Sheldon, The Best Laid Plans

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Sunday, October 4, 2009

bifurcate \BY-fur-kayt; by-FUR-kayt\, transitive verb:

1. To divide into two branches or parts.

intransitive verb:
1. To branch or separate into two parts.

adjective:
1. Divided into two branches or parts; forked.

There it was, a sliver of a million-dollar view: the red towers of the Golden Gate Bridge that bifurcated the waters, marking bay from ocean.
-- Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Monday, October 5, 2009

esurient \ih-SUR-ee-uhnt; -ZUR-\, adjective:

Hungry; greedy.

The enemy then was an esurient Soviet Union which, having swallowed up Eastern Europe, had imposed a totalitarian system on countries just liberated from Nazism.
-- Arnold Beichman, "As Truman envisioned our role", Washington Times, April 23, 2002

[2jules7]

They bifurcated the apple to see the star of seeds.
That poster was simply raffish.
The esurient ducks surrounded the food.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Thursday, October 8, 2009

titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\, transitive and intransitive verb:

1. To make decorative additions to; spruce.

intransitive verb:
1. To make oneself smart or spruce.

It's easy to laugh at a book in which the heroine's husband says to her, "You look beautiful," and then adds, "So stop titivating yourself."
-- Joyce Cohen, review of To Be the Best, by Barbara Taylor Bradford, New York Times, July 31, 1988

[2jules7]

Together they titivated the books for the test.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Tuesday, October 13, 2009

triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun:

Fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.

Thirteen people, pledged to eliminate triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number 13, today tried to reassure American sufferers by renting a 13 ft plot of land in Brooklyn for 13 cents . . . a month.
-- Daily Telegraph, January 14, 1967

[2jules7]

Triskaidekaphobia is no match for those of us born on Friday the 13.

[Shea]

hahah how do you even pronounce that word??

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Wednesday, October 14, 2009

pukka \PUHK-uh\, adjective:

1. Authentic; genuine.
2. Superior; first-class.

He talks like the quintessential pukka Englishman and quotes Chesterton and Kipling by the yard and yet he has chosen to live most of his adult life abroad.
-- Lynn Barber, "Bell book . . . and then what?", The Observer, August 27, 2000

[2jules7]

Originally Posted by Shea

hahah how do you even pronounce that word??

its a hard word, even the syllables next to words have me confused sometimes.

[2jules7]

Sittin pukka to London, our trip was awesome!

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Thursday, October 15, 2009

fetor \FEE-tuhr; FEE-tor\, noun:

A strong, offensive smell; stench.

Inside it's pitch black & the air is hot & wet with the sweet fetor of rotting grass.
-- Peter Blegvad, "The Free Lunch", Chicago Review, June 22, 1999

[2jules7]

The fetor of the mascot unifrom was rank.

[BU12R]

October 16, 2009

redolent
RED/uh/luhnt adjective

1. Having or exuding fragrance; scented; aromatic
2. Full of fragrance; odorous; smelling (usually used with 'of' or 'with').
3. Serving to bring to mind; evocative; suggestive; reminiscent (usually used with 'of' or 'with').

[Shea]

hmmm never heard this one...you learn something new everyday! ha

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Friday, October 16, 2009

redolent \RED-uh-luhnt\, adjective:

1. Having or exuding fragrance; scented; aromatic.
2. Full of fragrance; odorous; smelling (usually used with 'of' or 'with').
3. Serving to bring to mind; evocative; suggestive; reminiscent (usually used with 'of' or 'with').

The 142-foot-long sidewheeled steamer . . . ferried people from place to place, . . . its two decks redolent with the aroma of fresh grapes, peaches, and other fruit headed for the rail spur at the Canandaigua pier, then on to markets in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
-- A. M. Sperber and Eric Lax, Bogart

[2jules7]

The redolent of the pumpkin spice candle was wonderful.