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WORD OF THE DAY Saturday, March 18, 2023 OED Word of the Day: aisling, n. A type of allegorical poem in the Irish language, often serving as a vehicle for political or social comment, which depicts the poet's conversation with a spirit woman who is usually a personification of Ireland.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "In the aisling, the Spéirbhean and her suitor alike represent a native Irish political agency that has been nullified by colonial occupation." - 2010, J. Valente Myth Manliness Irish National Culture (2011) iii. 98

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WORD OF THE DAY Monday, March 13, 2023 OED Word of the Day: panfrivolium, n. A place or scene of utter frivolity.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Within the walls of that exquisite Panfrivolium—the ball-room at Willis's!" - 1834, Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 597/1

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WORD OF THE DAY Sunday, March 12, 2023 OED Word of the Day: factoid, n. An item of information accepted or presented as a fact, although not (or not necessarily) true. This first appears in Norman Mailer's novel Marilyn, published 50 years ago this year.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Factoids..that is, facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority." - 1973, N. Mailer, Marilyn i. 18/2

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WORD OF THE DAY Saturday, March 11, 2023 OED Word of the Day: nunatak, n. An isolated peak of rock projecting above the surface of inland ice.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "They turned their attention to the various nunataks that towered above the ice and made the best of the opportunity." - 1988, Climber June 29/3

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WORD OF THE DAY Monday, March 6, 2023 OED Word of the Day: puckfoisted, adj. In Gloucestershire, England: cheated by a demon, bewitched.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Here are a few of the Elizabethan words that were heard at the Globe more than three hundred years ago and are heard to-day in the inns between Chipping Campden and Stow-on-the-Wold..‘puckfoisted’ for bewitched." - 1932, H. J. Massingham Wold without End App. 294

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WORD OF THE DAY Sunday, March 5, 2023 OED Word of the Day: meonic, adj. Of, relating to, or consisting of a kind of pregnant nothingness or void (as distinguished from an absolute blank nothingness) having the potential to transform into matter.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "A mysterious ‘meonic abyss of freedom’." - 1938, J. Burnaby Amor Dei viii. 231

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WORD OF THE DAY Saturday, March 4, 2023 OED Word of the Day: chimaek, n. In South Korea and Korean-style restaurants: fried chicken served with beer. Popularized outside South Korea by the Korean television drama "My Love from the Star" (2014).

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "[In response to "I found a Korean fried chicken+beer place."] Yesssss!!! Thank you!! It's been a while since I've been able to enjoy some chimaek!" - 2021, @khard123, 24 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 24 Feb. 2021)

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WORD OF THE DAY Monday, February 27, 2023 OED Word of the Day: chaffering, n. The action of buying and selling; trading or dealing in goods.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Betere is the purchasing of it than the chaffering [a1425 L.V. marchaundie] of gold and siluer." - a1382, Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. iii. 14

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