Posted on 10/04/2002 5:09:33 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....
raffish \RAF-ish,or RAYF-ish\, adjective:
raffishly; adverb
raffishness; noun
1. Characterized by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity, crudeness, or rowdiness; tawdry.
2. Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; rakish.
3. Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.
4. Marked by smartness in dress and manners
We are told about Bacon's taste for raffish, lower-class lovers, his penchant for gambling and his almost complete disregard for money.
--Michiko Kakutani, "Portrait of a Portraitist Of a Century's Horrors," review of Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times, by Andrew Sinclair, New York Times,, December 14, 1993
[Probably from dialectal raff, rubbish, from Middle English raf, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]. Date: 1801
There are some childishly trivial algebra problems to the left, something about "for what value of t does (2t-1)/(3t+4) = 2" (the answer is -9/4), and on the right it says "I am a math nerd. A classic nerd. A prototypical nerd. I have tape on my glasses. And a pocket protector. I will make my first million before I am 25."
BWAHAHA! What a load o' horse hockey. 25 has come and gone and I ain't seen no million.
(Who the hell is Stacey?)
[blush] That's the nicest thing anybody's said to me all day, chickie...
So is that the result everybody gets from that site, or was it just specific to Moi? Bwaha...
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