Pronounced: ten-DEN(t)-shuhs, adj
Notes: I didn’t know the word when I saw it
Yesterday’s word
The word athwart, as an adverb, means “from side to side; crosswise”. As a preposition, it means “from side to side of; across”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1400s
Background / Comments
Our word is a combination of a- (on; into; toward) plus thwart, which came from the Old Norse word thvert, a neuter form of thverr (transverse).
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