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A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg honeyfuggle PRONUNCIATION: (HUN-ee-fuh-guhl) MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To deceive or swindle, especially by flattery. ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from honey + fugle (to cheat). Earliest documented use: 1829. Also spelled as honeyfugle. USAGE: Dont try to honeyfuggle me, Wolf McCloud. Im not pretty, and we both know it. Jane Bonander; Wild Heart; Pocket Books; 1995. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it. -Anton Chekhov, short-story writer and dramatist (1860-1904)
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:45:46 +0000

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