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Word of the Day: Lurry (Noun)
Pronunciation: ['lê-ri]
Definition: (1) Something repeated monotonically, by rote, a boilerplate speech; (2) a hubbub, babble, jumble of voices; (3) a confused throng, a jumble.
Usage: The plural of today's word is "lurries." It cannot be used as a verb and seems to have no relatives at all of the adjectival or adverbial persuasion.
Suggested Usage: An election year is the season of lurries but this year we are hearing the Democratic and Republican lurries much earlier than usual. Come to think of it, an election year produces occasions for all the senses of this word: "The candidate's lurry was barely audible above the lurry of the lurry gathered for the festivities." Of course, a sentence like this would never survive the editor's eye; better use one at a time, "Lois Riske, candidate for the state senate, canted a lurry of all the points in her party's platform rather than read a carefully reasoned speech."
Etymology: Today's word in its first meaning was shortened from liripoop or liripipe, the long tail hanging from academic hoods or, earlier, a lesson to be learned (by rote). The English word came from Medieval Latin liripipium of uncertain origin. The second sense of today's word may well be related to Welsh llwry "precipitant, forward" from llwr "direction," though the semantic case is difficult to make.
—Dr. Language, yourDictionary.com
مع فائق التحية و التقدير للمتحاورين الكرام
Word of the Day: Lurry (Noun)
Pronunciation: ['lê-ri]
Definition: (1) Something repeated monotonically, by rote, a boilerplate speech; (2) a hubbub, babble, jumble of voices; (3) a confused throng, a jumble.
Usage: The plural of today's word is "lurries." It cannot be used as a verb and seems to have no relatives at all of the adjectival or adverbial persuasion.
Suggested Usage: An election year is the season of lurries but this year we are hearing the Democratic and Republican lurries much earlier than usual. Come to think of it, an election year produces occasions for all the senses of this word: "The candidate's lurry was barely audible above the lurry of the lurry gathered for the festivities." Of course, a sentence like this would never survive the editor's eye; better use one at a time, "Lois Riske, candidate for the state senate, canted a lurry of all the points in her party's platform rather than read a carefully reasoned speech."
Etymology: Today's word in its first meaning was shortened from liripoop or liripipe, the long tail hanging from academic hoods or, earlier, a lesson to be learned (by rote). The English word came from Medieval Latin liripipium of uncertain origin. The second sense of today's word may well be related to Welsh llwry "precipitant, forward" from llwr "direction," though the semantic case is difficult to make.
—Dr. Language, yourDictionary.com