![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Thursday words: tribology and farouche
Aug. 31st, 2017 07:48 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
prettygoodword.livejournal.comI missed last Thursday, so two words today:
tribology (tray-BOL-uh-jee) - n., the study of friction, lubrication, and wear between moving surfaces.
Where there are two moving pieces that touch, there goes the tribologist. Materials science ahoy! With a side-order of mechanical engineering, of course. Coined around 1965 from Greek roots tribos, participle of tribein, to rub + -ology, study of.
farouche (fah-ROOSH) - adj., marked by sullen shyness and lack of social graces; wild.
The basic connotation being untamed. I've known a few teens this describes. Borrowed around 1765 from French farouche, shy/wild, from Old French, faroche, from Late Latin forasticus, from without, from Latin foras, out of doors, akin to Latin fores, door.
---L.
tribology (tray-BOL-uh-jee) - n., the study of friction, lubrication, and wear between moving surfaces.
Where there are two moving pieces that touch, there goes the tribologist. Materials science ahoy! With a side-order of mechanical engineering, of course. Coined around 1965 from Greek roots tribos, participle of tribein, to rub + -ology, study of.
farouche (fah-ROOSH) - adj., marked by sullen shyness and lack of social graces; wild.
The basic connotation being untamed. I've known a few teens this describes. Borrowed around 1765 from French farouche, shy/wild, from Old French, faroche, from Late Latin forasticus, from without, from Latin foras, out of doors, akin to Latin fores, door.
---L.
