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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Today’s Word
for erin:
gravid \GRAV-id\ adjective
*1 : pregnant
2 : distended with or full of eggs
Did you know?
“Gravid” comes from Latin “gravis,” meaning “heavy.” It can refer to a female who is literally pregnant, and it also has the figurative meanings of “pregnant”: “full or teeming” and “meaningful.” Thus, a writer may be gravid with ideas as she sits down to write; a cloud may be gravid with rain; or a speaker may make a gravid pause before announcing his remarkable findings.
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November 20th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Yay, I get a dedicated word! I’m feeling pretty gravid, let me tell ya :p
November 20th, 2008 at 11:55 am
If you go have a good healthy breakfast, you could qualify for #2 as well!
November 20th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I don’t think that any woman would ever want to be described as distended.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:45 pm
While Gina is correct, I *have* been eating a number of egg-salad sandwiches recently, so…
November 25th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
That’s a word I heard often while studying fish. ;)