shivaree

Pronounced: shih-vuh-REE, noun

Notes: This word sounds slightly familiar, but I don’t have any recollection of it

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Yesterday’s word

The word jaundiced means

• prejudiced (biased) because of envy or resentment
• having jaundice (a disease in which the skin or the whites of the eyes is unnaturally yellow)

First usage

Our word came into English in the mid-1600s

Background / Comments

I knew of the second meaning above; in fact, I knew a young man in college who was given a shot from an unclean needle that gave him jaundice. I still remember how oddly yellow his eyes looked. However, I was incorrect regarding the first definition; I thought that the word meant “cynically jaded”. Our word came from the Old French word jaunice (yellowness), which came from jaune (yelllow), which came from the Latin word galbinus (yellowish), which came from galbus (yellow).