This week’s theme
Words coined after animals

This week’s words
henchman
poodle-faker
harebrained
duck soup
skylark

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(HAYR-braynd)

MEANING:

adjective: Foolish; reckless; ridiculous.

ETYMOLOGY:

From the allusion that a harebrained person has the brain as small as a hare’s. From Old English hara (hare) + braegen (brain). Earliest documented use: 1548.

USAGE:

“Hagrid had some harebrained scheme in hand, which might make him miss Sirius.”
JK Rowling; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Bloomsbury; 2000.

See more usage examples of harebrained in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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