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This week's theme Insults. This week's words politicaster quidnunc analphabet wifty gormandizer Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg wifty PRONUNCIATION: (WIF-tee) MEANING: adjective: Eccentric, silly, scatterbrained. ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. USAGE: "Kirsten Dunst is utterly charming as the doctor's wifty office assistant, idolizing her boss from afar and sharing tokes and beer with a pair of Lacuna lab techies." Steven Rea; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Knight Ridder Newspapers; Mar 19, 2004. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: One should count each day a separate life. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

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