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gasconade
noun
extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
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Gasconade 鈥渆xtravagant boasting; boastful talk鈥� comes straight from French gasconnade 鈥渂ragging, boasting, a boastful story,鈥� from the noun Gascon, denoting an inhabitant of Gascony in southwest France. Gascon聽ultimately comes from Latin Vasco, 痴补蝉肠艒 (inflectional stem Vascon-, 痴补蝉肠艒n-), originally denoting the inhabitants of Vasconia, the territory on either side of the Pyrenees. Vascones becomes Guascones in Medieval Latin: Vasco is the source of Basque, and Guascon the source of Gascon. Gasconade entered English in the mid-17th century.
how is gasconade used?
We may also have figured out, or most of us may have, that the bluster and gasconade of the fear-mongers hasn鈥檛 really done us much good.
The president was impressed by Hooker’s achievements but disturbed by his gasconade.
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nescience
noun
lack of knowledge; ignorance.
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Nescience, 鈥渓ack of knowledge, ignorance,鈥� comes straight from Late Latin nescientia, a noun formed from nescient-, the stem of 苍别蝉肠颈脓苍蝉, the present participle of 苍别蝉肠墨谤别 鈥渢o be ignorant, not to know,鈥� and the Latin (and Greek) noun suffix –ia. In Latin (and other archaic Indo-European languages, with the exception of Greek), ne– was the original negative for sentences: thus the pair 蝉肠颈艒 鈥淚 know,鈥� and ne蝉肠颈艒 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know.鈥� The usual sentence negative in Classical Latin is 苍艒苍, probably from earlier noenum “not one (thing),” itself a strengthening of ne with oenum (Classical Latin 奴苍耻尘). Something similar happened in English, the adverb not being a reduced form of nought (also naught), a compound of the negative adverb ne and the noun wiht 鈥渢hing, wight.鈥� Nescience entered English in the first half of the 17th century.
how is nescience used?
Verily, geology might be termed “man’s nescience of creation,” wherein he best learns how little he can know.
The unexpected vantage point can help induce a beneficial nescience that disarms us of existing tools and systems of thinking.
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More about macushla
Macushla is a phonetic English spelling of the Erse (Irish Gaelic) mo chuisle, literally 鈥渕y pulse,鈥� or translated more romantically, 鈥渕y heartbeat, my sweetheart, darling.鈥� The mo-, ma– in macushla, mo chuisle means 鈥渕y鈥�; cushla, chuisle 鈥減ulse, heartbeat, vein,鈥� comes from an earlier Erse cuisle, of uncertain etymology, but most likely a borrowing of Latin pulsus 鈥渟triking, beating, pulse.鈥� Cuisle appears in another Irish idiom: a chuisle 鈥渕y dear, darling,鈥� in full, a chuisle mo chro铆, literally, 鈥減ulse of my heart.鈥� (The phrase Mother Machree 鈥淢other dear鈥� entered English in the first half of the 19th century.) The a is the Gaelic vocative particle, a particle used in direct address, and equivalent to English exclamation O. 颁丑谤辞铆 鈥渉eart鈥� comes from Old Irish crid-, which closely resembles Welsh craidd, Latin cord-, Greek kard-, and Hittite karts, all meaning 鈥渉eart.鈥� Macushla entered English in the first half of the 19th century.
how is macushla used?
Come, macushla, come, as in ancient times / Rings aloud the underland with faery chimes.
To hear teenagers quietly speaking Irish. To read Maurice O’Sullivan’s Twenty Years A-Growing. To find out that the endearment “macushla” comes from the Irish word for pulse. These are the things that would encourage a person to look more closely at the Irish language.
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