Pronounced: meech, verb
Notes: I have no recollection of running across this word
Yesterday’s word
The word chauffeur is (as I’m sure you know) “a person employed to drive a motor vehicle”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
I had assumed that our word just the French word for “driver”, but such is not the case: originally, chauffeurs were people employed to stoke a steam engine and keep it running. Our word did indeed come from the French noun chauffeur (one what heats), which came from the verb chauffer (to heat). When automobiles were just coming on the scene, French speakers extended chauffeur to those who drove these “horseless carriages” — from there, the meaning eventually extended to mean someone hired to drive other people, and this is the sense that came into English.
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