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Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

Jolly (adjective, verb, noun, adverb)
jol·ly [jol-ee]


adjective
1. in good spirits; gay; merry: In a moment he was as jolly as ever.
2. cheerfully festive or convivial: a jolly party.
3. joyous; happy: Christmas is a jolly season.
4. Chiefly British Informal. delightful; charming.
5. British.
a. Informal. great; thorough: a jolly blunderer.
b. Slang. slightly drunk; tipsy.

verb (used with object)
6. Informal. to talk or act agreeably to (a person) in order to keep that person in good humor, especially in the hope of gaining something (usually followed by along ): They jollied him along until the job was done.

verb (used without object)
7. Informal. to jolly a person; josh; kid.

noun
8. Informal. the practice or an instance of jollying a person.
9. Usually, jollies. Informal. pleasurable excitement, especially from or as if from something forbidden or improper; thrills; kicks: He gets his jollies from watching horror movies.

adverb
10. British Informal. extremely; very: He'll jolly well do as he's told.

Other Words From
jol·li·ly adverb
jol·li·ness noun
un·jol·ly adjective

Related Words
carefree, cheerful, chipper, convivial, enjoyable, festive, jovial, joyous, lighthearted, merry, playful, pleasant

See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
1–3. glad, spirited, jovial, sportive, playful. See gay.

Antonyms
1–3. gloomy, melancholy.

Origin: 1275–1325; Middle English joli, jolif < Old French, equivalent to jol- (probably < Old Norse jol Yule ) + -if -ive

Recent Examples on the Web
The same jolly collection also returns to the Top Streaming Albums chart for another year.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025

Winter break is a jolly time of the year for many children.
—Holly Garcia, Parents, 31 Dec. 2024

Demi Moore is having a jolly good time with her family this holiday season!
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024

That Hilty and Simard make it so jolly is a big relief and a big surprise.
—Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024

The 4Chan programmers got their viral sensation and their jollies.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Apr. 2024

Sunday was a tough day for those, like me, who get their entertainment jollies by watching losers try to redeem themselves.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024

As to the political will needed to jolly the process along, and arrange payment for those parts of the programme that will not pay for themselves, this can push both ways.
—The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019

So Watt sets out to convince them that the real killer is Peter Manuel by — wait for it! — taking him out on a bender and jollying him into a confession.
—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 19 May 2017
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Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025

Askance (adverb)
askance [ uh-skans ]


adverb
1. with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval: He looked askance at my offer.
2. with a side glance; sidewise; obliquely.

Idioms and Phrases
see look askance.

Related Words
skeptically, suspiciously

See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
1. suspiciously, skeptically

Origin: First recorded in 1520–30; earlier a scanche, a sca(u)nce; of obscure origin

Example Sentences
“Often, people look askance at victims who come forward with allegations years after a crime,” Boyarsky said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times

In their book, Passing on the Right, Jon Shields and Joshua Dunn noted that “conservative professors…look askance at the populism that has shaken up the Republican Party in recent years.”
From Salon

She looked mostly like this while saying it — eyes askance, either pre-or-post hand on chin — a vibe, nay, a mood that she carried throughout most of the debate.
From Salon

From the moment Saba hits Georgian soil, the police look askance at his family name — a warrant is out for Dad for attempted murder, he’s told — and seize his passport.
From Los Angeles Times

Such an approach is bound to be viewed askance by those expecting “Caste” to follow a classically prescribed narrative structure.
From Salon
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kitty-corner, catty-corner [kit-ee-kawr-ner, kat-ee-kawr-ner ]

adverb or adjective:
in a diagonal position from, especially outward from the corner of a square.

Examples:

A McDonald's is kitty-corner from a Walmart, and Tim Hortons is across the street from AAA. Convenient as it all may sound, this district is not quite real. (Katherine LaGrave, The Evolution of Miniature 'Safety Towns' for Kids, Bloomberg, June 2019)

The restaurant, which was built with an indoor and outdoor bar, sits kitty-corner to the school grounds. (Asher Price, Torchy's Tacos seeks alcohol waiver at South Congress spot, Axios, September 2024)

The next year began my transformation. I began to write about the High Line Canal, which was catty-corner to my apartment. (Loren M Hansen, Commentary: Becoming a bike advocate and how Streetsblog Denver helped me find community, Streetsblog Denver, January 2022)

I typically sit on the edge before pivoting 90 degrees and swinging my legs up, but then I'm still obliged to scooch - in kitty-corner fashion, as though my butt is a knight in a giant game of couch chess. (Nicole Shein, Are Sofas with Chaises Out of Style, or Here to Stay?, bob vila, July 2022)

Nancy had dropped my arm and was gliding kitty-corner fashion, across the floor. (Harold MacGrath, The Man on the Box)

Lieutenant Bill McDonald volunteered to lead a squad and break into a small house, just across a narrow little street and kitty-corner to the right. (Edwin L Sabin, With Sam Houston in Texas)

The grocery store is kitty corner from the coffee shop. Using my little makeshift diagram below, the blue cat is kitty corner from the orange tabby (and vice versa). (Michael Kwan, Idiomatica: Why Kitty Corner?, beyond the rhetoric, August 2018)


(click to enlarge)

Origin:

'diagonally opposite,' 1838, earlier cater-cornered (1835, American English), from now-obsolete cater 'to set, cut, or move diagonally' (1570s), from French catre 'four,' from Latin quattuor (from PIE root kwetwer- 'four'). (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Though peaked ears and spanned whiskers may be suggested by every variant, whether what is diagonal or oblique to or from something else is considered kitty-corner (or kitty-cornered), catty-corner (or catty-cornered), or catercorner (or catercornered), these seemingly feline-inspired directional words have nothing to do with cats. Instead they are yet more evidence of the English language's canoodling with French.

In the French of the 14th-16th centuries, quatre, the word for 'four,' could also be spelled catre. English speakers said 'ooh, that's handy' and snapped the term right up, but very sensibly (we think) spelled it cater. They already had a perfectly good word for 'four,' of course (it being four), but they liked that cater word for playing games and used it to refer to the four of cards or dice.

The four spots on dice, or four symbols on cards, can be seen as making an X, and it's suspected that this is how cater came to develop extended senses of 'diagonal' or 'diagonally.' English then made cater into a verb meaning 'to place, move, or cut (across) diagonally,' as in 'cater the pieces on the board,' but that never grew beyond some dialectal use. Also largely destined to flourish in dialects were a number of compound words that used cater to mean 'diagonal' or 'askew,' such as catabias and catawampus. Catercornered (and later catercorner) caught on more broadly. Eventually the dice and cards were forgotten and that first syllable settled very cat-like into a sunny spot in the lexicon and spread itself out: catty-corner and kitty-corner (and their -ed variants) were the inevitable outcome. (Merriam-Webster)

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Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2024

En Masse (noun)
en masse [ahn mas, en; French ahn mas]


adverb
1. in a mass; all together; as a group: The people rushed to the gate en masse.

Idioms and Phrases
In one group or body; all together. For example, The activists marched en masse to the capitol . This French term, with exactly the same meaning, was adopted into English about 1800.

Related Words
altogether

See synonyms for En Masse on Thesaurus.com

Origin: Borrowed into English from French around 1795–1805

Example Sentences
They pulled up in unmarked cars and on motorcycles, appearing en masse out of the darkness.
From The Daily Beast

The Internet cool kids are, of course, rallying against Swift en masse.
From The Daily Beast

But if word of the mission reached the city, there was a risk that the hostages would be executed en masse.
From The Daily Beast

For women who are attacked en masse, this new reporting system will save substantial time and energy.
From The Daily Beast

Editors were apoplectic, and they showed it by quitting en masse, leaving Mays to pick up the pieces.
From The Daily Beast
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peradventure [pur-uhd-ven-cher, per-]

noun:
1 chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
2 surmise
adverb:
(archaic) it may be; maybe; possibly; perhaps

Examples:

Peradventure they make sales on the January 31, they must ensure that they deposit the money in banks before the close of the working hours because old notes would cease to be legal tender from February 1, 2023. (Fear, anxiety as deadline to deposit old notes approaches, Nigerian Tribune, August 2022)

He could not feel any real happiness until he learned beyond peradventure that all was well. (Edward S Ellis, The Young Ranchers)

The trumpet and the opening coffin indicate peradventure the resurrection. (W T Vincent, In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious)

My finger, pointed at this man, would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon, thence, peradventure, to the gallows! (Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter)

"Only," continued the postmaster, "if you will put up with a little carriage I have, I will harness an old blind horse who has still his legs left, and peradventure will draw you to the house of M. (Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask)

Origin:

Middle English peraventure, paraventure (late 14c), per auenture (c 1300), from Old French par aventure. Refashioned 17c as though from Latin. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

When Middle English speakers borrowed par aventure from Anglo-French (in which language it means, literally, 'by chance'), it was as an adverb meaning 'perhaps' or 'possibly.' Before long, the word was anglicized to peradventure, and turned into a noun as well. The adverb is now archaic, though Washington Irving and other writers were still using it in the 19th century. 'If peradventure some straggling merchant ... should stop at his door with his cart load of tin ware....,' writes Irving in A History of New York. The noun senses we use today tend to show up in the phrase 'beyond peradventure' in contexts relating to proving or demonstrating something. The 'chance' sense is usually used in the phrase 'beyond peradventure of doubt.' (Merriam-Webster)

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deucedly [doo-sid-lee,dyoo-]

adverb:
(chiefly British, informal) devilishly, damnably: extremely

Examples:

It's deucedly hard to contemplate a Rolls-Royce without putting it on a pedestal, because they never feel like mere motorcars, somehow transcending glass and metal to symbolise fine taste, high achievement, or whatever it is you want your Rolls to say about you. (Leow Ju-Len, 2021 Rolls-Royce Ghost review - Haunting beauty, The Business TimesMarch 2021)

Only a deucedly cunning or blinkered view would consider Owaisi as doing politics that challenges the constitutional regime. (Badri Raina, How AIMIM Has Emerged As the Principal Challenger of the BJP, Not 'Secular' Parties, The Wire, November 2020)

"Young Reggie Foljambe to my certain knowledge offered him double what I was giving him, and Alistair Bingham-Reeves, who's got a valet who had been known to press his trousers sideways, used to look at him, when he came to see me, with a kind of glittering, hungry eye which disturbed me deucedly. Bally pirates!" (P G Wodehouse, 'Jeeves And The Hard-Boiled Egg')

George's engagement to Peggy seriously affected the lives of two people who are deucedly well known in society. (Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull, A Butterfly on the Wheel)

Why people, because they are in a steamboat, should get up so deucedly early I cannot understand. (William Makepeace Thackeray, Little Travels and Roadside Sketches)

Origin:

Formation from deuced: late 15c, dews, 'the 2 in dice or cards,' also 'a roll of 2 in dice' (1510s), from Old French deus (Modern French deux), from Latin duos (nominative duo) 'two' (from PIE root dwo- 'two'). The spelling -ce from -s to reflect voiceless pronunciation is as in dice, pence, etc.

Deuced became a mild oath by 1710, about 50 years after it was first attested in the sense of 'bad luck, the devil, etc,' perhaps because two was the lowest score, and probably by similarity to Latin deus and related words meaning 'god.' According to OED, 16c Low German had der daus! in the same sense, which perhaps influenced the English form. (Online Etymology Dictionary)


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Greetings, and thank you for reading the inaugural Throwback Thursday post! Many thanks to the lovely [personal profile] med_cat for allowing me to do this series. Throwback Thursday devotes itself to the joy of obsolete and archaic language.

Semovedly [adverb]
separate, alone

Semovedly appears in the second edition of Henry Cockerham's The English Dictionarie: or, an Interpreter of hard English words (1637). Cockerham's entry defines semovedly as "meaning one alone". Early dictionaries like Cockerham's tend to be word dumps, organized alphabetically or by subject, and often without the definitions and illustrative quotations as normalized by Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. For the curious, here's a transcription of Cockerham's first edition of The English Dictionarie (1623). It has wonderful sections, such as "Men vext in Hell".

The word semovedly appears in Thomas Nashe's discursive Christs Teares over Jerusalem (1593).
So let it be acceptable to God and His church what I write, as no man in this treatise I will particularly touch; none I will semovedly allude to, but only attaint vice in general.
 
Nashe is providing your basic all persons fictitious disclaimer: “all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this writing are fictitious.” He’s only holding a mirror up to society and showing it its sins, right guys? 

The TL;DR of Cristes Teares: reform, fellow Englishmen, or London will go the way of Jerusalem. People have their own ways of interpreting the bubonic plague, commonly moral.

Stay safe, folks. It's dangerous to go semovedly.
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forsooth [fawr-sooth]

adverb:
(archaic) in truth, indeed (now used in derision or to express disbelief

Examples:

Forsooth, the winter of our discontent has been made glorious summer by the Salzburg Festival. (A J Goldmann, After a Winter of Discontent, a Glorious Summer in Salzburg, The New York Times, July 2021)

And the lowly scribes say, forsooth
you are talking bunkum and hocus pocus. (An Ode for - and from - Sandra Goudie , newsroom, October 2021)

'Moral duty to chase' forsooth! 'Won’t someone think of the kiddies who came to watch' indeed! (Said no one, ever.) ( Tim de Lisle and Rob Smyth, England draw first Test with New Zealand: day five - as it happened, The Guardian, June 2021)

I am not to see, forsooth, that no man does me an injury, or breaks into my home--I am not to take care that all shall go well with me, or that I have clothes to wear, or that my shoes do not require mending, or that I be given work to do, or that I possess sufficient meat and drink? (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk)

Origin:

Old English forsoð 'indeed, in truth, verily,' from for-, perhaps here with intensive force (or else the whole might be 'for a truth'), + soð 'truth' (see sooth). Regarded as affected in speech by c 1600. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Although it is still a part of the English language, forsooth is now primarily used in humorous or ironic contexts, or in a manner intended to play off the word's archaic vibe. Forsooth is formed from the combination of the preposition for and the noun sooth. Sooth survives as both a noun (meaning 'truth' or 'reality') and an adjective (meaning 'true', 'sweet', or 'soft'), though it is rarely used by contemporary speakers. It primarily lives on in English in the verb soothe (which originally meant 'to show, assert, or confirm the truth of') and in the noun soothsayer (that is, 'truthsayer'), a name for someone who can predict the future. (Merriam-Webster)


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catch-as-catch-can [kach-uhz-kach-kan]

adjective:
using any available means or method, hit or miss
adverb:
without specific plan or order

Examples:

But you can now see a significant shift toward empowering audience members to make their own choices: Ravinia, for example, will have two kinds of lawn seating, one in predetermined pods, the other the traditional catch-as-catch-can. (Chris Jones, Chicago’s great cultural comeback is coming much faster than we thought. Here’s why., Chicago Tribune, May 2021)

As we follow Lucas home, we learn that he’s living a life of struggling self-sufficiency – his house a dark mess and each meal is catch-as-catch-can with no money and resources. (Eric Eisenberg, Antlers Review: A Well Made Horror Movie That Doesn’t Stick The Landing, CinemaBlend, October 2021)

I was riding around in my car with a trunk full of books, going around bookstores, [attending] events. It was very much a catch-as-catch can sort of existence. (Ashish Ghadiali, SA Cosby: The holy trinity of southern fiction is race, class and se’, Patch, August 2021)

Origin:

Variants of this term go back as far as the fourteenth century ('Was none in sight but cacche who that cacche might,' John Gower, c 1394) and appeared in John Heywood's 1546 collection of proverbs ('Catch that catch may'). More specifically, it is the name of both a children's game and a style of wrestling (also called freestyle) in which the wrestlers may get a hold on each other anyhow and anywhere. (The Free Dictionary)


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Boustrophedon - adjective or adverb.

Today's word was suggested by [livejournal.com profile] shivver13 and it's a fun one.

If you practice the art of calligraphy or studied anthropology, you may already know about boustrophedon. Pronounced /ˌbo͞ostrəˈfēdn/, the word is derived from Ancient Greek meaning "ox-turning" and can be used as an adjective or an adverb thusly:

adjective--written from right to left and from left to right in alternate lines. "the number of Attic boustrophedon texts is fairly small"

adverb--from right to left and from left to right in alternate lines. "in some examples the composition of pages is such that they must be read boustrophedon"
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lief [leef]

adjective:
1 (archaic) dear; beloved; treasured.
2 (archaic) willing, glad

adverb:
soon, gladly (commonly in the phrase 'as lief')

Examples:

Depend upon it, sir, many a rich man dining tonight upon roast swan would as lief exchange his vittles for a plate of this cooked cheese! (Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies)

He wants no boisterous notes of artificial passion: he would as lief the town-crier spoke his lines. (Michael Phelan, The Young Priest's Keepsake)

Lief should I rouse at mornings. And lief lie down of nights. (A E Houseman, Last Poems)

Origin:

Lief began as 'lēof' in Old English and has since appeared in many literary classics, first as an adjective and then as an adverb. It got its big break in the epic poem 'Beowulf' as an adjective meaning 'dear' or 'beloved.' The adverb first appeared in the 13th century, and in 1390, it was used in John Gower’s collection of love stories, 'Confessio Amantis.' Since that time, it has graced the pages of works by William Makepeace Thackeray, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and D.H. Lawrence, among others. Today, the adjective is considered to be archaic and the adverb is used much less frequently than in days of yore. It still pops up now and then, however, in the phrases 'had as lief,' 'would as lief,' 'had liefer,' and 'would liefer.' (Merriam-Webster)

'dearly, gladly, willingly' (obsolete or archaic), c. 1250, from Middle English adjective lief 'esteemed, beloved, dear,' from Old English leof 'dear, valued, beloved, pleasant' (also as a noun, 'a beloved person, friend'), from Proto-Germanic leuba- (source also of Old Norse ljutr, Old Frisian liaf, Dutch lief, Old High German liob, German lieb, Gothic liufs 'dear, beloved'), from PIE root leubh- 'to care, desire, love.' Often with the dative and in personal constructions with have or would in expressions of choice or preference ("and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment", 'Measure for Measure'). I want and I'd love to are overworked and misused to fill the hole left in the language when I would lief faded in 17c. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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Mutatis mutandis - phrase.

I'm going back to school again this year and my fibre classes are bursting with new words and phrases to share. I actually had to look up the meaning of some of them, including mutatis mutandis.

This Latin based phrase from the middle ages generally means:

  • with things changed that should be changed

  • having changed what needs to be changed

  • once the necessary changes have been made


It is sometimes used as an adverb in legal documents, but it's use is not limited to one area.

Here is how it is used in the reading assigned for this week, from The Language of Ornament by James Trilling:


A preferred material suddenly becomes unavailable; a discovery in the small print of the building code forces last minute
changes that have nothing to do with either practical function or artistic preference; clients suddenly decide to economize in the middle of a project. Mutatis mutandis, these things can happen in any art or craft. Each eventuality demands a physical adjustment, which is judged by the standards of taste and skill when its real cause is long forgotten.
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Ab ovo - Adverb.

It seems fitting to pick this Latin phrase as the first word of the year! Ab ovo literally means "from the egg". It is mostly used in literary contexts to mean "beginning". It can contrast with in media res, where a story starts in the middle.

Happy New Year!
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Tuesday, Apr. 23, 2019

Black (adjective, noun, verb, adverb)
black [blak]


adjective
1. lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
2. characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night.
3. (sometimes initial capital letter)
a. pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
b. African American.
4. soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour.
5. gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook.
6. deliberately; harmful; inexcusable: a black lie.
black as the night )
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Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018

Oblique (adjective, adverb, verb, noun)
o·blique [uh-bleek, oh-bleek; Military uh-blahyk, oh-blahyk]


adjective
1. neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
2. (of a solid) not having the axis perpendicular to the plane of the base.
would you believe there are MORE definitions behind the cut?! )
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askance: [uh-skans]

adverb:

1. With disapproval, mistrust, or suspicion. Scornfully. She looked askance at the fine print on the contract.

2. With a side glance. Sidewise. Obliquely. The writer looked askance at the wall clock as he finished the last paragraph.

Obsure origin, but first known use 1520-1530, previously a scanche, a scance, a scaunce.

I'm not sure I like this word.  Seems like there are plenty of more attractive ways to get these ideas across.
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sto·chas·tic [stoʊˈkæstɪk]:
origin: [1660] Greek; stokhos= aim, stokhastikos= able to guess; conjecturing. [1917] German; stochastik= randomly determined.



adjective (adverb: stochastically)
1. A choice made using a random variable, such as a program selecting one comment as a winner from a selection of thousands.

2. Any situation involving chance; statistics.

---

A "stochastic process" refers to an evolving (or changing) statistic based on a random variable that also is randomly selected; therefore time becomes the key factor in this process and how the results alter over a period of time. Example: The stock market or gauging how best to manage long lines in order to serve customers.
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deasil (ˈdi zəl)
adv.  Clockwise, rightwise, in the direction of the apparent course of the sun
noun  Motion in a clockwise direction.

Or deiseal, deisal, deisul, etc.; there appear to be many alternative spellings.

Etymology:  late 1700s, from Gaelic deiseil "toward the south".

I have a cat, Dory, who is a bit brain-damaged and has always turned widdershins - around furniture, around people...if she tries to turn deasil while chasing a cat toy, for example, she's likely to fall down.
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shut•tle•cock [ˈʃʌt lˌkɒk]:
origin: (1522) "shuttle" = to move back & forth, "cock" = plumage of male bird

noun
A word that sounds dirtier than it is; a ball-like object with netted feather-like appendages that is bandied back and forth in badminton or to bandy something about in such a manner.
a.k.a "birdie" or just plain "shuttle" (can't imagine why); related, see Shuttlecock Fern.

“It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.” - Samuel Johnson



in fla·gran·te de·lic·to [ɪn fləˈɡræntɪ dɪˈlɪktəʊ]:
origin: 18th Century Latin; flagrante dēlictō in= "inside" or "during"; flagrante= (while) "blazing", dēlictum= "misdeed" or "crime"

adverb
A legal term, meaning to be seen while committing an act/crime, the latin version of the phrase "caught red-handed".
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In honor of the first day of the shortest month...this entry is all about love. Don't feel left out or resentful on Valentine's Day, because there are so many types and forms of love to acknowledge that go beyond the obvious! Four of which are explored in The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis.

AGAPE
a·ga·pe [ä-gä′pā]:
origin: (1600's) Greek, ἀγάπη= love

noun
altruistic love wishing only good will toward others; a mutual love shared between God and mankind; virtuous; charitable gestures.

adjective or adverb [ə-ˈgāp]
to drop one's mouth open in (or be in a state of) awe, shock, or wonder; open wide.

Eros, Ludus, Mania, Pragma, and Storge )

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