Pronounced: paw-lee-DIP-see-uh, noun
Notes: I recognized “poly” meaning many or much, but I didn’t know the word
Yesterday’s word
The word garble means
- to so alter or distort as to create a wrong impression or to change the meaning
- to sift impurities from
First usage
Our word came into English in the early or middle 1400s
Background / Comments
I knew the first definition; the second was new to me. When the word first entered English in Middle English – as garbelen – it meant “to sift”, or more specifically, “to sort out the best”. But by early Modern English (garble), it had added the first meaning above.
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