What does each word mean? Meat refers to the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) when it is consumed as food. The word is also sometimes used figuratively to describe: a) the inner and usually edible part of a seed, grain, nut, or fruit, b) the most essential or most vital part of an idea or experience. Here is meat used in an example sentence: We are cooking meat and vegetables on the BBQ. Which meat do you prefer: chicken or pork? Extract the meat from the pumpkin before you carve it. Let’s get into the meat of this discussion. The verb meet describes the act of coming together. The word is also use...
Our Word for Wednesday theme for August is flowers. The word flower entered English around 1200 as ‘flour’ (with spelling variants including ‘flur’, ‘flor’, ‘floer’, ‘flor’, ‘floyer’, and ‘flowre’). It comes from the Old French ‘flor’, from the Latin ‘florem’. The word was used in reference to both blooms and grain until the late fourteenth century, after which the spellings ‘flower’ and ‘flour’ were used to differentiate between the two. So far we’ve looked at the words daisy and tulip—today’s word is carnation...
In a rush? Not sure what to have for lunch? You probably can’t go too wrong with a sandwich. We get the word for this convenient lunchtime staple from John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich. Said to be a keen gambler, the Earl of Sandwich supposedly ate slices of cold meat between bread at the gaming table instead of full meals. It's speculated that this was so that he didn’t have to stop to eat and so that that he didn’t get his playing cards dirty from the greasy meat. His friends then began ordering ‘the same as sandwich’ and from there the story of the sandwich as we know it now evolved. The word date backs to 1762 and the account ...
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