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Jun 3, 2022

This week’s theme
Portmanteaux (blend words)

This week’s words
frenemy
glamp
insinuendo
coopetition
glamazon

Illustration: Karen Folsom #kgfolsart

This week’s comments
AWADmail 1040

Next week’s theme
British streets that became words

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

glamazon

PRONUNCIATION:

(GLA-muh-zon)

MEANING:

noun: A tall, glamorous, self-assured woman.

ETYMOLOGY:

A blend of glamor + amazon. Earliest documented use: 1943.

USAGE:

“[Model Grace Elizabeth] has exhibited a chameleonic beauty that can shift from sweet girl next door one moment to striking glamazon the next.”
Alison Syrett; Amazing Grace; InStyle (New York); Dec 2018.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut." -Lawrence Lessig, professor and activist (b. 3 Jun 1961)

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