word of the day :: felicitous

felicitous:

[fi-lis-i-tuh s]

–adjective

1.  well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdotes set everyone at ease.

2. having a special ability for suitable manner or expression, as a person.

  

Origin:

1725-35;  felicit(y)  + -ous

"A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance."

:: Henry David Thoreau ::

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word of the day :: buffoonery

buffoon:

[buh-foon]

–noun

1. a person who amuses others by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures, etc.
2. a person given to coarse or undignified joking.

  

Origin:

1540-50; earlier buffon < F < It buffone,  equiv. to buff- (expressive base; cf. buffa  puff of breath, buffare  to puff, puff up one's checks) + -one  agent suffix ≪ L -ō,  acc. -ōnem

 

-Related Forms 

buff·foon·er·y [buh-foo-nuh-ree], noun

 

"There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poems there lives a real transcendental buffoonery. "

:: Friedrich von Schlegel ::

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