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Jan 15, 2021
This week’s themeWords with variant spellings This week’s words vardy juberous scrooch meech snoot This week’s comments AWADmail 968 Next week’s theme Words to describe people A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargsnoot
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: 1. A snob.
2. A nose or snout. verb tr.: To treat with disdain. ETYMOLOGY:
A variant of snout, of German/Dutch origin. Earliest documented use: 1861.
USAGE:
“Both are snoots sneering down from a pedestal of their own construction.” Catherine Shoard; Satire to Tortures; The Guardian (London, UK); Sep 12, 2014. “The young man rose from his stool, walked around the counter, and busted Brother Lester on the snoot with a solid right.” William W. Johnstone; The Devil’s Cat; Lyrical Press; 2015. “He is a really good artist. ... if folks snooted at what I do, well, there was always his stuff that they could approve of.” Hope Holland; What I Did in the Park Last Weekend; Carroll County Times (Westminster, Maryland); Jun 10, 2017. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market
capitalism for the poor. -Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (15
Jan 1929-1968)
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