Entries in Word of the Day (64)
Verbiage - February 22, 2010
Verbiage - February 19, 2010
Today's Word of the Day is Munge:
Munge
- A derogatory term meaning to imperfectly transform information.
- A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program.
Verbiage - February 18, 2010
Today's word of the day is Skimmington:
Skimmington
A word employed in the phrase, "To ride Skimmington"; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.
Verbiage - February 17, 2010
Verbiage - February 16, 2010
Today's word of the day is Deodand:
Deodand
-noun, English Law
(before 1846) an animal or article that, having been the immediate cause of the death of a human being, was forfeited to the crown to be applied to pious uses
Verbiage - February 15, 2010
Verbiage - February 12, 2010
Today's word of the day is Jiggery-Pokery:
Jiggery-pokery
–noun Chiefly British.
- Trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug
- Sly, underhanded action
- Manipulation: After a little jiggery-pokery, the engine started
Verbiage - February 10, 2010
Today's word of the day is Hypnopompic:
Hypnopompic:
Of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep.