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Mar 16, 2010
This week's themeWords about food and eating This week's words salmagundi edacious olla podrida prandial gallimaufry Enjoy A.Word.A.Day? Here are ways you can support this work: . Upgrade to premium subs. . Send a gift subscription . Become a sponsor . Buy our books . Contribute Thank you! 
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with Anu Gargedacious
PRONUNCIATION:
(i-DAY-shuhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
Devouring; voracious.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat,
to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch,
fret, and postprandial.
USAGE:
"For too many years my edacious reading habits had been leading me into
one unappealing corner after another, dank cul-de-sacs littered with
tear-stained diaries, empty pill bottles, bulging briefcases, broken vows,
humdrum phrases, sociological swab samples, and the (lovely?) bones of
dismembered children."Tom Robbins; In Defiance of Gravity; Harper's (New York); Sep 2004. See more usage examples of edacious in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers? -Joseph Wood Krutch, writer and naturalist (1893-1970)
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