Pronounced: WIELD, noun
Notes: I was thrown off by this word
Yesterday’s word
The word nu, as an interjection, means “well” or “so. As a noun, it refers to the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
First usage
The interjection came into English in the late 1800s; the noun has been around since the early to mid-1400s
Background / Comments
Our word is another case when I felt rather foolish after seeing the definition; I have studied a little Greek, and I had to learn the alphabet, so I should have known that meaning of the noun. However, I have run across the Yiddish phrase more recently, but I was a bit off on the meaning: I thought it meant something like “isn’t that right?”.
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