This week’s theme
High-scoring words in Scrabble

This week’s words
chutzpah
quixotry
blowzy
quincunx
whizbang

---

A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(KWIK-suh-tree)

MEANING:

noun: Absurdly chivalrous, idealistic, or impractical ideas or behavior.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Don Quixote, hero of the eponymous novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Earliest documented use: 1703. Also see quixotic and quixote.

USAGE:

“Neither British nor German hesitated at any time to violate the neutrality of Turkish territorial waters, but by the strange quixotry of a tacit gentlemen’s agreement, hostilities between passing vessels and planes were almost unknown.”
Alistair MacLean & Sam LLewellyn; The Complete Navarone; HarperCollins; 2008.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: