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niddering
Pronounced: NID-uhr-ing, noun Notes: It looks like it might be a verb, but it isn’t Yesterday’s word The word gregarious means First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1600s Background / Comments The word I was confusing our word with was “garrulous”. Our word came from the Latin word gregarius (belonging to a…
gregarious
Pronounced: grih-GER-ee-uhs, adj Notes: I keep thinking this word means “talkative”, but that’s not right Yesterday’s word The word tammany means “relating to political corruption” First usage Our word came into English in the mid-1800s Background / Comments Originally, Tammany (also Tamanend) was a wise and peaceful Delaware Indian chief; he became known as the…
tammany
Pronounced: TAM-uh-nee, adj Notes: The word was slightly familiar to me, but I did not know the definition Yesterday’s word The word sclaff means “to scrape the ground instead of hitting the ball cleanly on a golf stroke” First usage Our word came into English in the late 1800s Background / Comments Those of you…
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