A word of the day each weekday from Wordnik!
Today’s word of the day is skep, which is, at its most basic, a beehive made out of straw or wicker.
Today’s word of the day is hemidemisemiquaver, a sixty-fourth note in music. It’s also included on our list of the day by user chained_bear, “stupid drumming terms that run through my tiny brain.”
Today’s word of the day is sough, which as a verb means “to make a soft murmuring or rustling sound” and as a noun “a soft murmuring or rustling sound, as of the wind or a gentle surf.”
Today’s word of the day is vicissitude, a change or variation. Nathaniel Hawthorne, in Alice Doane’s Appeal, used it this way: “Their emotions came and went with quick vicissitude, and sometimes combined to form a peculiar and delicious excitement, the mirth brightening the gloom into a sunny shower of feeling, and a rainbow in the mind.”
Today’s word of the day is snash, to talk saucily. It’s a Scots word, possibly related to the Danish snaske, meaning “gnash or champ one’s food with a smacking noise,” a cognate to the Swedish snaska ‘smack,’ and probably related to the Dutch snakken ‘chatter.’