This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
bounder
toplofty
worrywart
airling
altricial

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(AIR-ling)

MEANING:

noun: A carefree, thoughtless person.

ETYMOLOGY:

A combination of air, from Latin aer (air) + -ling (small, young, inferior). Earliest documented use: 1611.

USAGE:

“‘Does that mean he is short a few marbles upstairs?’ Matthew asked. ... he knocked on his own head and said, ‘Airling,’ which got them all laughing.”
Sylvia Abolis Mennear; Enchanted Castle On The River; Xlibris; 2015.

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