Your Word of the Day

[StlSluggers]

I liked today's word because the two potential meanings are relatively dissimilar:

caducity \kuh-DOO-suh-tee\ noun
1 : senility
2 : the quality of being transitory or perishable

[AdvRider]

Just bringing up the rear ... :

callipygian (adj.)
having well-shaped buttocks.

steatopygous (adj.)
concerning extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, esp. of women.

[StlSluggers]

This one's really cool!

quisling \KWIZ-ling\ noun
: one who commits treason : collaborator

[Mookie4ever]

This one's really cool!

quisling \KWIZ-ling\ noun
: one who commits treason : collaborator

I'm not sure that's really a word. He was a real person. The President of Norway who capitulated and collaborated with the Nazis. Persecuted tons of his own people for the Nazis. He was worse than Petain in France.

[StlSluggers]

This one's really cool!

quisling \KWIZ-ling\ noun
: one who commits treason : collaborator

I'm not sure that's really a word. He was a real person. The President of Norway who capitulated and collaborated with the Nazis. Persecuted tons of his own people for the Nazis. He was worse than Petain in France.

Merriam-Webster says it's a word.

[AdvRider]

Wow, who knew there were so many sesquipedalians on this board …. !?

[StlSluggers]

deliquesce \del-ih-KWESS\ verb

1 : to dissolve or melt away
2 : to become soft or liquid with age or maturity — used of some fungal structures (as the gills of a mushroom)

"Deliquesce" derives from the prefix "de-" ("completely, away") and a form of the Latin verb "liquēre," meaning "to be fluid." Things that deliquesce, it could be said, turn to mush in more ways than one. In scientific contexts, a substance that deliquesces absorbs moisture from the atmosphere until it dissolves in the absorbed water and forms a solution. When plants and fungi deliquesce, they lose rigidity as they age. When "deliquesce" is used in non-scientific contexts, it is often in a figurative or humorous way to suggest the act of "melting away" under exhaustion, heat, or idleness, as in "teenagers deliquescing in 90-degree temperatures."

[AdvRider]

Since this is the Fantasy Baseball Café…

The fantasy manager admitted to a bit of schadenfreude when Chase Utley, owned by his closest rival, went down for 4 to 6 weeks with a broken hand.

For weeks after missing Mookie’s grounder in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, Bill Buckner emitted a distinctly hircine odor.

[StlSluggers]

salubrious \suh-LOO-bree-us\ adjective

: favorable to or promoting health or well-being

[StlSluggers]

For the people playing Mafia...

exculpatory \ek-SKUL-puh-tor-ee\ adjective

: tending or serving to clear from alleged fault or guilt