The Wonderful World Of Words, 3/1/17
With Spring come the showers that inevitably make this word a back-breaking necessity!
DEFINITION:
Noun -
weeding by hand; weeding out
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
Latin, (runcatio, "weeding out")
PRONUNCIATION:
\run-CA-shun
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
11
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
"Test your knowledge of vituperation by determining if the following is an insult or not. I was truly shocked to hear that you spent all yesterday afternoon engaged in RUNCATION, Arnie. This is not an insult. Arnie was weeding his garden."
--The Perfect Insult for Every Occasion
by A.C. Kemp, 2008
"Even swine have been known so to feed; and, further, by their constant RUNCATION among whatever lies on the ground. suggest impurity, even if I hey were not generally foul feeders. "
--Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 10
by Harper & Brothers , 1891
This photo makes me feel much better about my little garden!
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