Monday word: gimlet

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gimlet (gmlt)
noun:
1. A small hand tool used for boring holes in wood, with a pointed spiral tip and a handle at right angles.
2. A cocktail made with vodka or gin, and lime juice.
verb:
To make holes using a gimlet.
adj.:
Having a penetrating or piercing quality.

Etymology:  from Old French guimbelet, little drill.

Smedley D. Butler was known as "old gimlet eye".

(Belated) Saturday & Sunday Words: Scarify & Folly

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scar·i·fy [ˈskɛərɪˌfaɪ]:
origin: (1400s) Greek; skariphasthai = to scratch, outline or sketch

adjective
Or scar·i·fy·ing, basically means to make small cuts in -- which can be applied metaphorically (as in hurting someone's feelings) or to do this literally to the skin's surface (practiced by indigenous cultures for specific rituals and appropriated in modern times for beauty), or in biology in order to make seeds germinate faster.



( folly )

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