Pronounced: FUSS-chun, noun
Notes: I think of “fussy” when I see this word, but that’s not the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word leviathan is “something large and powerful”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1300s
Background / Comments
I thought that our word referred to some kind of sea creature; mainly due to remembered passages from the Bible that indicate it to be a water-based animal. I was not aware of the above meaning. Our word came into English from Latin, and came into Latin from the Hebrew word liwyathan (whale) — so, I knew more about the origin that I thought I did.
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