Pronounced: ARE-guh-see, noun
Notes: Not only did I not know the meaning, my guess at the origin was incorrect
Yesterday’s word
The word bident is “a two-pronged implement, weapon, instrument, etc”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1600s
Background / Comments
I should have known the meaning; I know the word “trident”, and our word is similar; it comes from the Latin word bidens (two-pronged), which is from bi- (two) and dens (tooth).
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