Today’s word of the day is warkamoowee, a canoe with outriggers, formerly used at Point de Galle on the southern end of Sri Lanka.
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Wordnik word of the day: wattle
Today’s word of the day is wattle, a fleshy, wrinkled, often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat, characteristic of certain birds, such as chickens or turkeys, and some lizards, especially lounge lizards.
Hullabaloo!
Todays’ word of the day is hullabaloo, a great noise, excitement, or uproar.
Tump, the Wordnik word of the day
Today’s word of the day is tump, meaning “to overturn” or “to fall over.” It’s probably etymologically related to tumble and probably is not a contraction of “turn over” and “dump.”
Photo of a tumped-over outhouse by Ryan Junell under a Creative Commons license.
Wordnik word of the day: quinquagenarian
Today’s word of the day is quinquagenarian, a person who is 50 years old or in their fifties. It’s also an adjective, as in, “The quinquagenarian set thinks as much about comfortable car seats as the septuagenarian set thinks about comfortable beds.”
Wordnik word of the day: maven
In memory of the man who helped popularize the word in English, today’s word of the day is maven, “a person who has special knowledge or experience; an expert.” It’s from the Yiddish meyvn, from Hebrew mēbîn, which is the active participle of hēbîn ‘to understand.’ Thanks to the maven himself, William Safire, who passed away over the weekend.
Wordnik word of the day: heifer
Today’s word of the day is heifer, a young cow, especially one that has not yet given birth to a calf. There’s nothing too remarkable about this word. We just like cows.
Photo by Andrew Beebe under a Creative Commons license.