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Summary: Dr. Goodword's Daily Podcast is a modern audio version of the familiar and popular printed Word of the Day. Each podcast provides an insightful vocabulary building word history for some of the best words in English, all in about four minutes. Dr. Goodword is the pseudonym for Dr. Robert Beard, emminent linguist and retired professor, whose expertise uncovers fascinating glimpses into our culture and our history.
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Hogmanay is not a pig resort but a Scottish festivity celebrated on the last day of the year. Children traditionally stroll about the neighborhood on this day asking for presents. Today's Good Word also refers to the gifts given or received on Hogmanay. More recently it has become a raucous New Year's Eve party in many Scottish cities at which revelers sometimes do behave a bit swinishly.
Excessive, more than is necessary, extra and unnecessary.
1. Magic, sleight of hand. 2. Trickery, deceitful cleverness.
1. A crude, uncultured, heartless person, a boor; someone who lives and treats others savagely. 2. A wild or primitive person, a savage.
1. A vain, conceited, pompous person, a coxcomb, a fop. 2. A loquacious, talkative person, a blabbermouth.
1. Slicked down, greasy, said especially of hair with too much tonic or oil on it. 2. Unctuous, oily, obsequious, ingratiatingly polite, perhaps with an overlay of feigned intelligence or sophistication.
1. Famous, well-known or widely known, often in a negative or PEJORATIVE sense. 2. A famous or widely known person, a notorious personality, as a show with several guest notorieties.
To severely reprimand or chastise.
1. Spotlessly clean, without stain or blemish, flawless. 2. Free of sin or failure, without any shortcoming, faultless, as an immaculate record.
1. Flushed with rosy color; ruddy, as a face florid from embarrassment. 2. Profusely decorative, much too flowery or ornate, especially speech or writing. 3. (Obsolete) Abounding in or covered with flowers.