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Feb 3, 2023
This week’s themeWords with multiple meanings This week’s words dickey dingbat decollate lave Internet Anagram Server I, Rearrangement Servant May I try your name? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garglave
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MEANING:
ETYMOLOGY:
For noun: From Old English laf (remainder). Earliest documented use: 971. For verb: From Old English lafian (to pour or wash), from Latin lavare (to wash). Earliest documented use: 450. USAGE:
“She took nearly a quarter of the butter home with her, and ate most
of it, and gave the lave to her cat.” Colin MacKay; The Song of the Forest; Canongate; 1986. “The ocean laves his feet.” Anthony Lane; Heat of the Action; The New Yorker; Feb 7, 2022. See more usage examples of lave in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful
that you are sure to stumble over something. -Gertrude Stein, novelist,
poet, and playwright (3 Feb 1874-1946)
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