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Nov 8, 2011 This week's theme Odds and ends This week's words apopemptic forficate addlepated catawampus scrobiculate Words, language & more Join us on our forum: Wordsmith Talk Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg forficate PRONUNCIATION: (FOR-fi-kit, kayt) MEANING: adjective: Deeply forked. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin forfex (scissors). Earliest documented use: 1816. USAGE: "Now comes a heat from your forficate thighs." Alexander Trocchi, ed.; Merlin; 1952. Explore "forficate" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. -Lin Yutang, writer and translator (1895-1976)

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