Today's Word:
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kibitzer
[kib-it-ser]

noun, Informal.
1. a spectator at a card game who looks at the players' cards over their shoulders, especially one who gives unsolicited advice.
2. a giver of uninvited or unwanted advice.
3. a person who jokes, chitchats, or makes wisecracks, especially while others are trying to work or to discuss something seriously.

 

Today's Word:​

ducky
[duhk-ee]

adjective:
1. fine; excellent; wonderful.
2. darling; charming; cute.

noun:
1. dear; sweetheart; darling; pet.

 

Ignore this post a moment... I'm on midnights and haven't slept yet.​

 

Today's Word:​

ululate
[uhl-yuh-leyt, yool-]

1. to howl, as a dog or a wolf; hoot, as an owl.
2. to utter howling sounds, as in shrill, wordless lamentation; wail.
3. to lament loudly and shrilly.

Used in a sentence:

Word of the Day contest! Use today's word in a sentence, and the best of however many entries there are will earn a prize! The more entries the bigger the prize!​

 

Today's Word:​

nomenclature
[noh-muh n-kley-cher, noh-men-kluh-cher, -choo r]

1. a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
2. the names or terms comprising a set or system.

 

Prize awarded via forum transfer. Yours was the only entry posted on this thread.

 

Today's Word:​

fortitudinous
[fawr-ti-tood-n-uh s, -tyood-]

1. having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.

 

Today's Word:​

wastrel
[wey-struh l]

1. a wasteful person; spendthrift.
2. an idler or vagabond
3. Chiefly British.

a. refuse; waste.
b. a waif; abandoned child.
c. an idler or good-for-nothing.​

 

The only W word I had in the master list was woebegone, which is why I selected this one. On what date did I use the word before?

 

Even subscribing to several 'word of the day' sites it is very hard to find interesting words... but I finally got one!

Today's Word:​

decathect
[dee-kuh-thekt]
1. to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.

 

I always edit the second post in this thread to be the word of the day, but it is the first time I have used this word.

 

I have not. There is a post, I think it is the 3rd one, that contains an alphabetised list of the words already used, in the order I had used them.

 

Today's Word:

ragpicker
[rag-pik-er]
1. a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.


Origin of ragpicker:
First recorded in 1855-60; rag + picker

Used in a sentence:

The Paris ragpicker is seldom seen in the streets by day: his most profitable season is the night.

 

Today's Word:​

hedonist
[heed-n-ist]
noun
1. a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
adjective
2. Also, hedonistic. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hedonist or hedonism.