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Bacchic (BAK-ik) adjective

1. Of or relating to Bacchus (Dionysus).
2. bacchic. Drunken and carousing; bacchanalian.

"'For years, I couldn't bear to even think about this stuff,' Sanders says of the Fugs' recordings. `I thought it was ghastly. Then I started listening to it, and I realized it had some pizzazz, some artistry, certainly a Bacchic or Dionysian fervor to it.'"
Scott Isler; Woodstock's Back, And So Are Fugs; Newsday; Jul 14, 1994.

This week's theme: Words from Greek mythology

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