Pronounced: rort, noun
Notes: A word I didn’t know at all
Yesterday’s word
The word gust means “keen delight”
First usage
Our word came into English in the first half of the 1400s
Background / Comments
I knew the word “gust” that refers to wind, but even though that word and our word are spelled the same in English, they have different origins. The windy “gust” came from (it is thought) the Old Norse word gustr. Our word came from Middle English, which came from the Latin word gustus (taste). The word “gusto” comes from the same source as our word.
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