Pronounced: TIH-tuh-vate, verb
Notes: I don’t think I’ve every run across this word
Yesterday’s word
The word verigreen is “a simple or gullible person”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1950s
Background / Comments
Our word came from very, which came from the Old French word verai (true), which came from the Latin word verus (true) and the word green (immature; naive; etc). So, yesterday, I was right and wrong when I thought our word meant “very green” – it DOES mean that, but I was thinking of the color green, not the idea of “green” as in “greenhorn”.
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 