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with Anu GarglinctusPRONUNCIATION:
(LINGK-tuhs)
MEANING:
noun: A syrupy liquid medicine, especially for treating coughs.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin lingere (to lick). Ultimately from the Indo-European root
leigh- (lick) that is also the source of lichen (apparently from the way
it licks its way around a surface), and lecher, but not lingerie (which
is from the root lino: flax).
USAGE:
"The audience emitted a few throaty cackles, as if they had collectively
drunk too much cough linctus."Simon Hoggart; Labour Conference; The Guardian (London, UK); Sep 24, 2007. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)
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