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Sep 28, 2016 This week’s theme Words coined after animals This week’s words henchman poodle-faker harebrained duck soup Photo: Karen van der Zijden A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg harebrained PRONUNCIATION: (HAYR-braynd) MEANING: adjective: Foolish; reckless; ridiculous. ETYMOLOGY: From the allusion that a harebrained person has the brain as small as a hare’s. From Old English hara (hare) + braegen (brain). Earliest documented use: 1548. USAGE: “Hagrid had some harebrained scheme in hand, which might make him miss Sirius.” JK Rowling; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Bloomsbury; 2000. See more usage examples of harebrained in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -Georges Clemenceau, statesman (28 Sep 1841-1929)

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