Pronounced: FUN-juh-bull, adj
Notes: Another word I have run across, but wasn’t sure of the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word styptic means “tending to contract or bind; astringent – especially tending to check bleeding”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1300s
Background / Comments
I have a distinct memory of reading the phrase “styptic pen” in various books, but I wasn’t quite sure of what it did. Our word came from the Greek word styptikos, which came from styphein (to contract).
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