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Jan 30, 2014
This week's themeAmericanisms This week's words bloviate skulduggery honeyfuggle lallygag bumfuzzle A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garglallygag or lollygag
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
verb intr.: 1. To fool around, waste time, or spend time lazily. 2. To neck. ETYMOLOGY:
Origin uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1862.
USAGE:
"I lallygagged around and when it was evident that they were not coming
home to take me, I had to start off." Margaret Mason; A Memory at Large; RoseDog Books; 2011. See more usage examples of lallygag in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
War is the unfolding of miscalculations. -Barbara Tuchman, historian (1912-1989)
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