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bounteous
adjective
freely bestowed; plentiful; abundant.
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Bounteous聽comes from Middle English聽bountevous, bounteuous, bontivous聽(and other variant spellings) 鈥済ood, worthy, virtuous; knightly, valiant; generous, liberal,鈥� from Old French聽bontieus, bontif听(尘补蝉肠耻濒颈苍别),听产辞苍迟颈惫别听(feminine) 鈥渂enevolent, full of goodness, from Old French聽bont茅, bontet聽(source of Middle English聽bounte, English聽产辞耻苍迟测听鈥済enerosity, generous gift鈥�), from Latin聽产辞苍颈迟腻蝉听(蝉迟别尘听产辞苍颈迟腻迟-) 鈥済oodness, excellence.鈥� The spelling聽产辞耻苍迟别辞耻蝉听arose in the early 15th century as if the etymology were聽产辞耻苍迟别听plus the adjective suffix –ous.听叠辞耻苍迟别辞耻蝉听entered English in the second half of the 14th century.
how is bounteous used?
Let鈥檚 not give up on pies. Usually, there鈥檚 a lush and sweet array鈥攁 loud hurrah to end the bounteous feast.
Mesmerized by the bounteous displays of freshly harvested produce, artisanal breads, and locally raised meats, I salivated with greedy glee, thinking of the market-inspired menus I could prepare if I moved here.
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ambrosial
adjective
exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.
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The English adjective ambrosial comes from the Greek noun 补尘产谤辞蝉铆补 鈥渋mmortality; elixir of life, food of the gods.” (狈茅办迟补谤 is 鈥渢he drink of the gods, nectar鈥�). The initial a– of 补尘产谤辞蝉铆补 is a variant of the prefix an– meaning 鈥渘ot, without, lacking,鈥� as in atheist or anarchy. The b in 补尘产谤辞蝉铆补 is a glide consonant between the m and the r. The mro is a derivative of 尘艞-, a variant of the very common Proto-Indo-European root mer-, mor-, 尘艞– 鈥渢o die.鈥� The variant 尘艞– is also the source of Latin mors (stem mort-) 鈥渄eath,鈥� Morta 鈥済oddess of death,鈥� and 尘辞谤墨 鈥渢o die,鈥� Armenian mard 鈥渕an,鈥� Sanskrit 尘艞t谩– 鈥渄ead,鈥� and Slavic (Polish) martwy 鈥渄ead.鈥� The root variant 尘艞– regularly becomes mur– in the Germanic languages, yielding murder in English and Mord 鈥渕urder鈥� in German. The root variant mor– is the source of Greek 尘辞谤迟贸蝉 and Sanskrit 尘谩谤迟补– 鈥渉uman (being), mortal,鈥� and Old Persian martiya– 鈥渕ortal, man.鈥� The root variant mer– is the source of Hittite mert 鈥渄颈别诲.鈥� Ambrosial entered English in the second half of the 16th century.
how is ambrosial used?
Her dishes were threaded through with the islands鈥� smoke and spice and with the ambrosial sweetness of tropical fruit …
He quickly sautes the preserved duck with wild onions, bathes it with a buttery white wine sauce, and tosses in the parboiled, bite-sized pasta and the glistening green fiddleheads. After a few ambrosial bites, I call it investigative journalism.
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pother
noun
a heated discussion, debate, or argument; fuss; to-do.
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All the authorities agree that pother 鈥渃ommotion, uproar; heated argument鈥� has no reliable etymology; indeed, even the words that pother may be related to, like bother, have no trustworthy etymology. (The fact that an early citation of pother is spelled bother just makes things worse.) Pother originally rhymed with other and brother; it acquired its current pronunciation by the beginning of the 19th century.
how is pother used?
Yet what a pother is there of pismires over a grain of sand. But that grain of sand is their whole world.
“I don’t know what’s so very extraordinary about it, or why there should be such a pother,” he began; and he knew that he was insolently ignoring abundant reasons for pother, if there had been any pother. “Yes, I’m engaged.”
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