Word or Words of the Day and Discussion

[PrincessFiona60]

repechage:
(sports) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors
who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left
in the next round.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/repechage>

 

[CWS4322]

é·pée also e·pee (

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,

p

)

1. A fencing sword with a bowl-shaped guard and a long, narrow, fluted blade that has no cutting edge and tapers to a blunted point.

2. The art or sport of fencing with this sword.

[French, from Old French espee, from Latin spatha, broad double-edged sword; see spathe.]

 

[PrincessFiona60]

erratic:
(geology) A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a
glacier.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/erratic>

I love erratics...they are a most fascinating subject. Maybe I should have studied geology.

 

[CWS4322]

anion . (physics). The positive electrode of an electrolyctic cell, discharge tube, valve, or rectifier.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

anion . (physics). The positive electrode of an electrolyctic cell, discharge tube, valve, or rectifier.

Anion vs Cation - Difference and Comparison | Diffen

 

[Cooking Goddess]

erratic:
(geology) A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a
glacier.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/erratic>....

I'm more familiar with this meaning:

a : characterized by lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity <erratic dieting> <keeps erratic hours>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

teenybopper:
A person, especially a female, in her early teens who follows popular
clothing fashions, music trends, and the like.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/teenybopper>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

avail:
1. (transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of.
2. (transitive) To be of service to.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avail>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

nowise:
(In) no way, (in) no manner, definitely not.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nowise>

 

[CWS4322]

gabelle

A tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.

Etymology:

Middle English gabel, from Old French, from Old Italian gabella, from Arabic qabāla, tribute, from qabila, to receive.

To learn more about this unpopular tax:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabelle

http://www.salt.org.il/legabelle.html

For those who read French:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabelle_du_sel

 

[PrincessFiona60]

gabelle

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabelle_du_sel

That was a fun read, thanks CWS!

 

[Cooking Goddess]

gabelle

A tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.

Etymology:

Middle English gabel, from Old French, from Old Italian gabella, from Arabic qabāla, tribute, from qabila, to receive.

To learn more about this unpopular tax:

Gabelle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...

CW, I don't know about you, but I've never met a "popular tax". BTW, it was an interesting read. Thanks.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

remuneration:
1. Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.
2. A payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.
3. A recompense for a loss; compensation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/remuneration>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

social contract:
(philosophy, politics) An implicit agreement or contract among members
of a society that dictates things such as submission of individuals to
rule of law and acceptable conduct.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/social_contract>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

clemency:
1. The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in
judging or punishing.
2. (now rare) Mildness of weather.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clemency>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

transhumance:
The moving of cattle or other grazing animals to new pastures, often
quite distant, according to the change in season.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transhumance>

 

[CWS4322]

re·pu·di·ate

[ri-pyoo-dee-eyt] Show IPA
verb (used with object), re·pu·di·at·ed, re·pu·di·at·ing. 1. to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
2. to cast off or disown: to repudiate a son.
3. to reject with disapproval or condemnation: to repudiate a new doctrine.
4. to reject with denial: to repudiate a charge as untrue.
5. to refuse to acknowledge and pay (a debt), as a state, municipality, etc.

 

[Cooking Goddess]

plethora

pleth·o·ra [pleth-er-uh]

noun

1. overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
2. Pathology Archaic. a morbid condition due to excess of red corpuscles in the blood or increase in the quantity of blood.

Origin: 1535–45; < Neo-Latin < Greek plēthṓra fullness

 

[PrincessFiona60]

accismus:
(rhetoric) Feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accismus>

 

[Aunt Bea]

I learned a new word today from CWS4322 in the pork chop thread!

abattoir
ab·at·toir
A slaughterhouse.

A few more words like that and I might pay $12.00 for a pork chop!
What a great word, abattoir, abattoir, abattoir!!!