ETYMOLOGY
– from Danish dialect mosle, musle (to be dull or lazy at work)
EXAMPLE
“…She’s no-but a poor moozles…”
From: The Fenland, Past and Present
Samuel Henry Miller, Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, 1878
Word of the Day: MOOZLES
Category: Word of the Day – M
Word of the Day: MINUATE
ETYMOLOGY
irregular formed on Latin minuĕre to lessen + -ate
EXAMPLE
– “The sole dissent about its composition, is in the tincture of the silk, and the weight of Musk, which some augment, others minuate“
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick:
Composed By The Illustrious Renodaeus,
Englished and Revised by Richard Tomlinson, of London, Apothecary, 1657
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