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This week's theme Americanisms This week's words skedaddle absquatulate discombobulate flummadiddle hornswoggle Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg absquatulate PRONUNCIATION: (ab-SKWOCH-uh-layt) MEANING: verb intr.: To leave in a hurry; to flee. ETYMOLOGY: A Mock-Latinate formation, from ab- (away) + squat + -ulate (as in congratulate). First cited from the late 1830s. USAGE: "If you try to absquatulate again, I'll sic the FBI on you." Elliott Roosevelt; Murder in the Executive Mansion; St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1996. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Democracy, to me, is liberty plus economic security. -Maury Maverick, attorney and congressman (1895-1954)

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