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This week's theme Yours to discover This week's words odious asinine cagey arcadian devious The gift of words Send a gift subscription In less than a minute! Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg cagey PRONUNCIATION: (KAY-jee) MEANING: adjective: 1. Evasive; reticent. 2. Shrewd; crafty. ETYMOLOGY: Origin unknown. Perhaps from cage, from cavea (birdcage), from cavus (hollow). USAGE: "NBC execs were cagey about the prospects of Paula Abdul's landing on one of the network's reality-competition programs." Alex Strachan; More Reality Shows for NBC and Maybe Paula Abdul; The Gazette (Montreal, Canada); Aug 6, 2009. Explore "cagey" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. -Terry Pratchett, novelist (b. 1948)

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