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Nov 7, 2019
This week’s themeWords originating in the hand This week’s words glad hand fingerpost chirocracy bareknuckle manumission 
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with Anu Gargbareknuckle
PRONUNCIATION:
(BER-NUHK-uhl)
MEANING:
adjective, adverb 1. Without using boxing gloves. 2. Rough; unrestrained by rules or scruples. ETYMOLOGY:
From bare, from Old English baer + knuckle, diminutive of Middle Low
German knoke (bone). Earliest documented use: 1883.
USAGE:
“This will be bareknuckle brawl on the mountainside and the strongest,
smartest rider will win.” Lawrence Ostlere; Froome vs Thomas: Two Old Friends Set to Be Tested by Opposing Ambitions; The Independent (London, UK); Jul 24, 2018. See more usage examples of bareknuckle in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same
time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty
being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie,
scientist, Nobel laureate (7 Nov 1867-1934)
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