Posted on 10/17/2017 4:53:44 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday October 17, 2017
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
mealy-mouthed []
-adj
hesitant or afraid to speak plainly; not outspoken
[1570s; first element perhaps from Old English milisc "sweet," from Proto-Germanic *meduz "honey" (see mead (n.1)), which suits the sense, but if the Old English word did not survive long enough to be the source of this, perhaps the first element is from meal (n.2) on notion of the "softness" of ground flour (cf. Middle English melishe (adj.) "friable, loose," used of soils).]
Speak up!
If they ban Gone With The Wind,
We will never again be treated to Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar-Winning performance, as she chastised the Selfish Scarlet O’Hara for calling Mellie a “Mealy-Mouthed Fool”.
The hate-filled lies spewing from our “precious” ABCNNBCBS mainstream meany-mouthed media mean many more months moaning morasses, monstrous manias, more madness.
Meanwhile, Antifa & other Leftist agitators are “melee-mouthed” with the intent to disrupt and suppress the free discussion of ideas…
Indeed!
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