Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Fwd: subfuscous: Dictionary.com Word of the Day


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Dec. 16, 2014
Word of the Day

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\suhb-FUHS-kuhs\
adjective
1. slightly dark, dusky, or somber.
Quotes
To add inanity to injury, he also began struggling—when friends and schoolmates sniffed out telltale odors of rebellion upon his person—to pass off his increasingly subfuscous wardrobe and squalorous digs as a matter of style...
-- David James Duncan, The Brothers K, 1992
Origin
Subfuscous entered English in the mid-1700s from the Latin subfuscus.
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