A.Word.A.Day --swoopstake

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Jun 4, 2013

This week's theme
Words that appear to be misspellings

This week's words
calyculus
swoopstake
theocrasy
agrement
jargoon

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(SWOOP-stayk)

MEANING:

adverb: In an indiscriminate manner.

ETYMOLOGY:

Alteration of sweepstake, from sweep + stake, originally referring to the winner who takes all. Earliest documented use: 1599.

USAGE:

"I replied by falling swoopstake and cropneck^* in love with them all, damn it, them all."
Kathleen Tynan; Tynan Letters; Vintage; 2012.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

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