This week’s Word of the Week aka WOtW is fain which means to ‘welcome (a person)’ (The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary).
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Our sixth word of the week is Muskings, which means: ‘Prob.: refuse swept up from a barn, etc., and used for feeding pigs’ (OED online). It’s rather an old word, so we want to see the modern day equivalent.
This week’s Word of the Week is coruscate, a verb that means to ‘sparkle, flash’ (The Concise Oxford Dictionary). You now have one week to get creative with coruscate.
This week’s Word of the Week aka WOtW is recondite which means ‘Of things: Removed or hidden from view; kept out of sight.’ (The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary).You now have one week to get creative with recondite.
This week’s Word of the Week aka WOtW is thrumble which means ‘Make one’s way by pushing or jostling; push, jostle’ (The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary). You now have one week to produce a creative thrumble.
To launch the competition, we’ve chosen a lovely word from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, namley tamasha, which means ‘An entertainment, public function’ or ‘A fuss, commotion’. You now have one week to produce a creative tamasha.