Crossword-Solution: ETYMOL
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ETYMOL | anagram | MOTLEY |
We have 1 clue for the answer “ETYMOL”
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| Science of word origins: Abbr. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ETYMOL (5)
Observations on the word will be found in Spelman’s _Etymol._, Pegge’s _Curialia_, from the Liber Niger, Edw.
Etym: [Of uncertain etymol.] Defn: A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
Among the corrupt words he uses are a few that are curious, because they have descended into the modern Castilian; such as, “_astrosus_, ab astro dictus, quasi malo sidere natus,” (Etymol., 1483, fol.
Wright explains the word as 'dried sweetmeats or sugar-plums.' Does it not in the quotations rather mean _loaf-sugar_? [Palmer (_Folk Etymol._ 378) says that the original meaning was a 'slice of melon or gourd,' Ital.
Respecting Samos, and its primitive Karian inhabitants, displaced by Patroklês, and Tembriôn at the head of Grecian emigrants, see Etymol.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1958).