BESPOKE

PRONUNCIATION: (bi-SPOHK)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Custom-made.
2. Relating to custom-made products.

ETYMOLOGY: Shortening of bespoken, past participle of bespeak (to speak for, to arrange), from Old English besprecan (to speak about). Earliest documented use: 1755.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (8 Jul 1926-2004)
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BESTPOKE - any of several zingers by Larry or Curly or Moe

BESPORE - to dust with fern seeds

BESPOK - 1. to overwhelm with logic; 2. to bestow the Leonard Nimoy Award