This week’s theme
Words derived from body parts

This week’s words
tergiversate
loggerhead
hough
middlebrow
footloose

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(hok)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To cripple, disable, or to make ineffective.
noun: The joint in the hind leg of a quadruped animal such as a horse, equivalent to the ankle in a human.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English hoh (heel). Earliest documented use: 1400.

USAGE:

“The self hamstrung, houghed, short-circuited, is the self God wants of us.”
Molly Rachamim; After the Fall; Cross Currents (New York); Fall 2004.

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