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.
Such a nice word for a Wednesday… Today’s word of the day is flagitious, an adjective meaning “characterized by extremely brutal or cruel crimes; vicious; shamefully wicked; atrocious; scandalous; flagrant; grossly criminal.” It is related to flagitate ‘to demand fiercely or imperiously.’
Ah, there’s nothing like dusting off an old derogation. Today’s word of the day is papelard, “a dissembler; a flatterer; a hypocrite.” It’s been little used in English since Chaucer put it to work, but it’s been slightly more common in French, from which it comes. The noun for what a papelard practices, papelardie, means “hypocrisy” or pope-holy, another obscure and disused term.
Today’s word of the day is cashew, the kidney-shaped seed of a tropical American evergreen tree, Anacardium occidentale.
This is the fruit that contains the nut. Photo by Joao Vicente, used under a Creative Commons license.
Today’s word of the day is bevue, an inadvertent error or a small omission. It’s pronounced “beh-VIEW.” It’s from the French bévue, meaning “a blunder.”