SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:
EDACITY
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun:
Greediness; good appetite.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root
ed- (to eat, to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible,
obese, etch, fret, and postprandial. Earliest documented use: 1626.
USAGE:
EDACITY
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun:
Greediness; good appetite.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root
ed- (to eat, to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible,
obese, etch, fret, and postprandial. Earliest documented use: 1626.
USAGE:
"Allender is still undaunted, but hungry,
not with the reckless experience appetite of a kid, but rather with the edacity
of an older gourmand who wants as
much of what he loves as possible."
Alan Tennant; The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas; U of Texas Press; 1980.
Alan Tennant; The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas; U of Texas Press; 1980.
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