Word or Words of the Day and Discussion

[taxlady]

Does it walk like a duck and talk like a duck? (Canard is French for duck, is it not?)

Yes it is.

 

[CWS4322]

quetzal

/ket säl′/

1. a crested trogon bird (Pharomachrus mocinno) of Central America, usually brilliant green above and red below, with long, streaming tail feathers in the male
2. pl. quetzales the basic monetary unit of Guatemala

Origin: AmSp < Nahuatl quetzaltototl < quetzalli, tail feather + tototls, bird

 

[PrincessFiona60]

iatrogenesis:
(medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical
treatment.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iatrogenesis>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

unstinted:
Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unstinted>

 

[CWS4322]

quipu (n.)


/kē′po̵̅o̅, kwip′o̵̅o̅/

A device consisting of an arrangement of cords variously colored and knotted, used by the ancient Peruvians to keep accounts, record events, etc.

Origin: AmSp quipo < Quechua khípu (also sp. quipu), knot

 

[PrincessFiona60]

maybe the origin of tying string on your finger as a memory aid...

 

[PrincessFiona60]

zealous:
Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zealous>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

variadic:
(Computing, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of
arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/variadic>

 

[CWS4322]

quadrivial (adj)

 

/kwo-driv-ee-uh

l/

1.having four ways or roads meeting in a point.
2. (of ways or roads) leading in four directions.
3. of or pertaining to the quadrivium.



Etymology:

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin quadriviālis, equivalent to Late Latin quadrivi ( um ) quadrivium + -ālis -al

 

[PrincessFiona60]

in memoriam:
In memory (of); as a memorial.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_memoriam>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

vocable:
1. A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than
its meaning.
2. A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in
place of actual words in a song.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vocable>

 

[Cooking Goddess]

#2 ~ That would be like scat singing, right PF? Ella Fitzgerald always did that right..

 

[PrincessFiona60]

#2 ~ That would be like scat singing, right PF? Ella Fitzgerald always did that right..

Yes, that it would be! Thanks, I was trying to think of something for my brain to connect the word to.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

gooseberry:
1. A fruit closely related to the currant.
2. Any of several other unrelated fruits, such as the Chinese gooseberry
(kiwifruit) or the Indian gooseberry (amla).
3. (British, informal) An unwanted additional person: Robert and Susan were
so in love that nobody could go near them without feeling like a
gooseberry.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gooseberry>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

torrefy:
To subject to intense heat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/torrefy>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

rally cap:
(US, baseball) A baseball cap worn inside-out and backwards, or in
another unconventional manner, by players or fans, as a talisman in
order to will a team into a come-from-behind rally late in the game.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rally_cap>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

munificence:
The quality of being munificent; generosity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/munificence>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

rapine:
The seizure of someone's property by force; plunder.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapine>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

chirality:
The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, of objects being
unidentical mirror images of each other, like a person's left and right
hands.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chirality>

 

[GotGarlic]

stereotype

To believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same.