Fwd: A.Word.A.Day--tantivy

[Doug Millison]

>Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:03:51 -0400
>From: Wordsmith <wsmith at wordsmith.org>
>Subject: A.Word.A.Day--tantivy

>
>tantivy (tan-TIV-ee) adverb
>
>   At full gallop; at full speed.
>
>noun
>
>   A fast gallop; rush.
>
>adjective
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>   Swift.
>
>interjection
>
>   A hunting cry by a hunter riding a horse at full speed.
>
>[Of obscure origin, perhaps from the sound of a galloping horse's feet.]
>
>   "But both the book and the exhibit show clearly that along with these
>   changes in diet, sport and exercise had an early start and a long run
>   among the tangled tantivy of 19th-century cures, cons, leeches, preachers,
>   drugs, zaps, baths, diets, teetotaling, indoor plumbing, ventilation, and
>   `Spanish Nerve Grains' that stampeded Americans into our current obsession
>   with fitness."
>   Christina Robb, Exercists America's Longtime Pursuit of Fitness,
>   The Boston Globe, Mar 13, 1988.
>
>This week's theme: unusual words.
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