Monday, March 26, 2007

WORD OF THE WEEK (SINCE I'M TOO LAZY TO DO THIS EVERY DAY): FETID

I just love this word, especially pronounced the British way: feee-tid.

fet·id
Pronunciation: 'fe-t&d, especially British 'fE-tid
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin foetidus, from foetEre to stink
: having a heavy offensive smell (a fetid swamp)
synonym: see MALODOROUS

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