This week's theme
Words to describe people

This week's words
mumpsimus
fustilarian
hobbledehoy
makebate
bellygod

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A.Word.A.Day

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.

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