

Jul 2, 2013 This week's theme

Words to describe people



This week's words

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fustilarian

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Words to describe people A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



fustilarian PRONUNCIATION: (fuhs-tuh-LAR-ee-uhn)

MEANING: noun: A fat and slovenly person.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English fusty (smelly, moldy). Earliest documented use: 1600.

NOTES: The first recorded use of the word is from Shakespeare's Henry IV in which Falstaff exclaims, "Away, you scullion ! You rampallion ! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe."

USAGE: "I've no fancy to be guzzled up by a wolf or spitted on the tusks of one of the fustilarian wild boars."

Joan Aiken; Whispering Mountain; Starscape; 2002.

See more usage examples of fustilarian in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. -Ray Bradbury, writer (1920-2012)





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