Category Archives: List of the Day

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Georgic down on the farm

Today’s word of the day is georgic, relating to agriculture or rural life. In thanks to farmers and farming, we also have things found down on the farm as our list of the day, as well as these additional words of the day.

tilth: cultivation of land; tillage; tilled land.

hopperdozer: an old-fashioned device for killing locusts with tar and kerosene among the crops.

boon-work: work or service freely given to a farmer by his neighbors on some special occasion.

granger: in the upper American Midwest, a farmer.

boss-cockie: in Australia, a farmer whose holding is large enough to require laborers to help work it.

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Wrick and -imm-

Today’s word of the day is wrick, which means “to twist or turn” or “a sprain.” A synonym is rick and both are probably related to crick, as in, “There’s a crick in my back. Will you walk on my back for a spell?”

Today’s list of the day is imm, which contains nothing more than words with the letters “imm” somewhere in them: swimming, immodest, gimmick, and more.

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Haruspex and sweet tooth fairy

Today’s word of the day is haruspex, which was a priest in ancient Rome who practiced divination by the inspection of the entrails of animals. It’s sometimes used in a literary fashion to refer to any person who tries to predict the future.

Today’s list of the day is Sweet Tooth Fairy, which contains three-part phrases made of two different compound words, so “sweet tooth” and “tooth fairy” combine to form “sweet tooth fairy.” It’s a great road game, too.