This week’s theme
No el

This week’s words
disject
equative
zygomorphic
excubant
forswunk


Here’s a different take on No el from a previous year

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(for-SWUNK)

MEANING:

adjective: Exhausted.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Middle English forswinken (to overwork), from forswink (to exhaust), from for- + swink (to labor). Earliest documented use: 1250.

USAGE:

“Mr Don Packham was feeling somewhat forswunk this afternoon.”
Mat Coward; Over and Under; Five Star; 2004.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: