Word of the Day

[MissBubu]

I had this thread on another site. Enjoy!

Croodle

Croo"dle\ (kr??"d'l), v. i. [Cf. Cruddle, Crudle.]

1. To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Forby.

A dove to fly home her nest and croodle there. --C. Kingsley.

2. To fawn or coax. [Obs.]

3. To coo. [Scot.]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

[MissBubu]

Ignipotent

Ig*nip"o*tent\, a. [L. ignipotens; ignis fire + potens powerful.] Presiding over fire; also, fiery.

Vulcan is called the powerful ignipotent. --Pope.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

[MissBubu]

Chaffer

–noun 1. bargaining; haggling. 
–verb (used without object) 2. to bargain; haggle: to chaffer over a price. 
3. to bandy words; chatter: to chaffer about nothing in particular. 
–verb (used with object) 4. to bandy (words). 
5. Obsolete. to trade or deal in; barter. 


The peasant, not having much money to squander, was such a good chafferer that he went home from the faire with change still in his pockets.

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[Origin: 1175–1225; ME chaffare, deriv. of chapfare trading journey, equiv. to OE céap trade (see cheap) + faru journey; see fare]

—Related forms
chaff·er·er, noun
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[Baron Doune]

Miss B a request maybe?

Could you use the word in a sentence please?

I do like this topic.

[Phelyp, Lord Maydestone]

How about a word for all the Norman personas out there?  Here's a favourite from North of the border - tabernacle!!!!

[Marietta Graziella]

TEENFUL  Causing annoyance and vexation, from the word teen, meaning annoyance and irritation.

In 1386 Chaucer wrote in his Knight's Tale
Never was there no word him between of jealousy or any other teen.

In 1594 Shakespeare wrote in Richard III (Act IV, Scene 1),
"Each hour's joy wracked with a week of teen."


*sigh*  The word seems so appropriate with my 4 boys either being teenagers or coming on soon.  *sigh*

[MissBubu]

Pillion   

–noun 1. a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, esp. as a seat for a woman. 
2. a pad, cushion, saddle, or the like, used as a passenger seat on a bicycle, motor scooter, etc. 
3. a passenger's saddle or seat behind the driver's seat on a motorcycle. 

The lady was most comfortable seated upon the pillion behind her knight.


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[Origin: 1495–1505; < ScotGael pillinn or Ir pillín, dim. of peall skin, rug blanket, MIr pell < L pellis skin]
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[Baron Doune]

Thank you Miss B!
*waving from behind the pillion*

[MissBubu]

chanking
Part of Speech:   n
Definition:   food that is spit out, like pits or seeds

Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7)
Copyright © 2003-2008 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC

The oaffish knight's habit of talking whilst eating left numerous chankings on the ground.

[MissBubu]

agerasia

noun
youthful appearance in an old person 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

The senile dowager was severely mistaken in her belief of her own agerasia.

[Morwen Twilight]

My personal favorite
Nice
noun
1. A foolish or simple person; a fool.

    a1425 (?a1400) CHAUCER Romaunt Rose 5043 If it be ony fool or nyce, In whom that Shame hath no justice.


from the Oxford English Dictionary.

[MissBubu]

ca·thol·i·con    [kuh-thol-i-kuhn]

–noun a universal remedy; panacea. 


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[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < ML < Gk katholikón neut. of katholikós catholic]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

The pirate believed in rum as his catholicon to his ailments.

[Marietta Graziella]

Great word!  catholicon.   Will have to figure out a way to use that one!

This weekend, I believe mead will be my catholicon.

Does that work?!? 

[MissBubu]

Mead always works.

And beer helps.

[MissBubu]

Cribble

Crib"ble\ (kr?b"b'l), n. [F. crible, LL. criblus sieve, fr. L. cribrum.]

1. A coarse sieve or screen.

2. Coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] --Johnson. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


The peasant woman used a cribble of woven grass to sift the bugs out of her flour.