51吃瓜 of the Day
versify
verb
to relate, describe, or treat (something) in the form of poetry.
More about versify
Versify comes via Old French versifier from Latin 惫别谤蝉颈蹿颈肠腻谤别 鈥渢o write or compose verse.鈥� 痴别谤蝉颈蹿颈肠腻谤别 is partly composed of the noun versus 鈥渁 line of writing, a line of poetry, a sequence of notes.鈥� The basic meaning of versus is 鈥渁 circular movement (in a dance), twirl鈥� and is a derivative of the verb vertere 鈥渢o turn, revolve, pass through a cycle.鈥� The combining form –蹿颈肠腻谤别 means 鈥渄oing, making, causing鈥� and ultimately derives from the verb facere 鈥渢o make, build, construct.鈥� Versify entered English in the 14th century.
how is versify used?
… the energetic singer who cannot repress the impromptu urge to versify the mundane things going on around him.
He served in Africa, southern France and Italy during World War II, a period that he said led him to “versify in earnest.”
fool
noun
British Cookery.
a dish made of fruit, scalded or stewed, crushed and mixed with cream or the like: gooseberry fool.
More about fool
Fool, “a dessert made of scalded or stewed fruit, crushed and mixed with cream,” is just the sort of word to cause an etymological food fight. Fool is probably a specialized sense of fool 鈥渁 silly or stupid person.鈥� In the late 16th century, trifle, now meaning 鈥渟omething of little value, consequence, or importance,鈥� was a synonym for fool (the dessert), though the dessert we call trifle is now something different. Another (discredited) etymology derives fool from Old French foulex, fole, 鈥渁 pressing, treading,鈥� from fouler, foler 鈥渢o press, tread.鈥� Fool (the dessert) entered English in the 16th century.
how is fool used?
The fool, one of the oldest English desserts, is basically nothing more than a mixture of聽pur茅ed聽fruit, sugar, and thick cream, the simplest thing in the world.
One of the simplest ways to prepare strawberries when you want a departure from serving them plain is to chop them into a Fool.
velutinous
adjective
having a soft, velvety surface, as certain plants.
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Velutinous, 鈥渉aving a soft, velvety surface or hairs,鈥� is a very rare adjective, a technical term used in botany and entomology. Velutinous comes directly from the New Latin adjective 惫别濒奴迟墨苍耻蝉 鈥渧elvety,鈥� from Medieval Latin 惫别濒奴迟耻尘 鈥渧别濒惫别迟.鈥� 痴别濒奴迟耻尘 possibly comes from assumed Vulgar Latin 惫颈濒濒奴迟耻蝉, from Latin villus 鈥渟haggy nap.鈥� Velutinous entered English in the 19th century.
how is velutinous used?
He picked up his bread, pulled open the crust so the soft velutinous white inside was exposed, pushed it into a piece of omelet, then lifted the dripping morsel to his lips and bit upon it.
The deep shag of a plush carpet was beneath our feet and velutinous purple flocked wallpaper covered the walls.