Pronounced: dih-SEEZ (alt: diss-SEEZ), verb
Notes: It sounds like “disease”, but isn’t related
Yesterday’s word
The word bletting means “the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained”.
First usage
Our word is one of the rare ones that I cannot find out when it came into English
Background / Comments
Our word is near the end of the not-very-good calendar of words; this time, they listed the word as a verb, even though their own definition was that of a noun. It looks to be the gerund of “blet”, but “blet” is not a verb either (as least, not that I could find). Our word comes from the French word blet (overripe), which is considered to be a variant of the Old French word bleche, which is an adjective that comes from the verb blecier (to bruise).
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