This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
idiolatry
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bolt-hole
hyperacusis
yesternoon

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Next week's theme
Shoes

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(YES-tuhr-noon)

MEANING:

noun: The afternoon of the previous day.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English giestran/gierstan (a time one period prior to the present period) + noon, from Latin nona hora (ninth hour [after sunrise]). Earliest documented use: 1850. Some related words are yestereve and yesternight.

USAGE:

“Yesternoon, whilst Annie was taking a catnap, I carried all the eggs over to the Smiths’ like you told me.”
Cathy Marie Hake; Forevermore; Bethany House; 2008.

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