📝 Word of the day
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- soigné
- adjective
- carefully or elegantly done, operated, or designed
- boondoggle
- Noun
- work of little or no value done merely to look busy
- Less specific
- waste
- wastefulness
- dissipation
- Verb
- do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
- Less specific
- work
- noetic
- Adjective
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; “intellectual problems”; “the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man”
- Synonyms
- intellectual
- rational
- Similar to
- mental
- Related
- cognition
- knowledge
- noesis
- rationality
- rationalness
- perennity
- Noun
- An enduring or continuing through the whole year without ceasing.
- chubasco
- Noun (nautical)
- A violent squall with thunder and lightning, encountered during the rainy season along the Pacific coast of Central America and South America.
- carpophagous
- Adjective
- Feeding on fruit; fruit-eating
- appetency
- Noun
- Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite
- makebate
- Noun
- One who excites contentions and quarrels.
- Noun
- A plant, Jasminum fruticans.
- cynophobia
- Noun
- pathological fear or loathing of dogs
- habiliment
- Noun
- Clothes or clothing.
- fribble
- Verb
- to act in a foolish or frivolous manner; trifle
- salutary
- Adjective
- tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health; “beneficial effects of a balanced diet”; “a good night’s sleep”; “the salutary influence of pure air”
- vituperation
- Noun
- verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- wuther
- Verb
- (of wind) to blow fiercely
- mountebank
- Noun
- A flamboyant charlatan
- "I wouldn't trust a word out of that mountebank's mouth." -- Irving B., Severance Season 2 Episode 4, "Woe's Hollow"
- amphigory
- Noun
- a meaningless or nonsensical piece of writing
- spindrift
- Noun
- spray swept up by wind along the surface of the sea
- decoct
- Verb
- to extract the flavor or essence of something by boiling
- raffish
- Adjective
- Unconventional and slightly disreputable, especially in an attractive manner: his raffish air
- Origin
- early 19th century: from riffraff + -ish'.
- Derivatives
- raffishly, raffishness
- psittacine
- adjective
- Of or relating to parrots
- flim-flam
- Verb (usually informal):
- To cheat, swindle, or deceive someone.
- Example
- They flim-flammed tourists into buying fake antiques.
- It often implies trickery with a slick or fast-talking style, sometimes used humorously or to suggest an old-fashioned con.
- pusillanimous
- adjective
- lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful