Waesucks, is that a word?
Definition of WAESUCKS Scottish —used to express pity Origin of WAESUCKS Scots wae woe (from Middle English wa) + sucks, alteration of English sakes — more at woe First Known Use: circa 1774
Category: lexicon
Word(s) of the Day – 12/29/2010
The English language can be an odd place, and obscure. Some of these words go back to the 18th Century or earlier. Please feel free to tell us your favorite “odd” word in the comments! A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell L. Willkie Abligurition – Spending just an inconceivably large amount […]
Word(s) of the Day – 12/11/2010
The English language can be an odd place, and obscure. Â Some of these words go back to the 18th Century or earlier. Â Please feel free to tell us your favorite “odd” word in the comments! A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell L. Willkie Abatude – Means money that’s been clipped. In […]
Word of The Day – Chapatsu
This literally translates to “brown hair”. Chapatsu (ãƒãƒ£ãƒ‘ツ) is the once-rebellious, once-trendy style of bleaching and occasionally dyeing hair, found among Japanese teens. While the style itself began to show up in Tokyo streets during the early to mid-1990s, the word did not appear in KÅjien (one of Japans authoritative dictionaries) until 1998. The style first […]
How Do Dogs Learn New Words?
..and what can word-learning in dogs teach us about the evolution of language in humans? Time Out…. This is just amazing! Â Really, just amazing… Â Give it a read or two… Â And pet your animal(s) today…. Â Okay, go back to reading the article… Â Time In! What is involved in the learning of a single new word? […]
Be there in a jiffy
I never knew this, but “Jiffy” is not just slang… Jiffy is used in different applications for various short, very short, or extremely short periods of time. In informal speech a “jiffy” means any unspecified short period of time, as in “I’ll be back in a jiffy”, but in other contexts it has more precise […]