dégringolade | Word of the Day

July 30, 2019 dégringolade [dey-gran-gaw-lad] noun 1. a quick deterioration or breakdown, as of a situation or circumstance. word-trends The Most Surprisingly Serendipitous Words Of The Day slang The Greatest Language Hits Of Black Music WORD OF THE DAY dégringolade continued... QUOTES The economically combatant nation entrenched themselves behind tariffs, played each other tricks with loans, repudiations, sudden inflations and deflations, and no power in the world seemed able to bring them into any concerted action to arrest and stop their common degringolade. -- H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, 1933 ORIGIN The rare noun dégringolade "a quick deterioration or breakdown," comes unchanged from French. The French noun is a derivative of the verb dégringoler (earlier désgringoler) "to tumble down." The prefix dé- (dés-) comes from the Latin prefix dis- "apart, asunder." The French noun suffix -ade ultimately comes from the Latin past participle suffix -ātus (-āta, -ātum). The verb gringoler may be a borrowing of Middle Dutch crinkelen "to curl, meander." Dégringolade entered English by the second half of the 19th century. MORE FOR YOU 1 Slang And Spelling Bees Influence Word Searches Over The Past Three Months Here are the top 10 most searched words over the past three months. 2 English Could Really Use These 9 Wunderbar German Words Many intimidating German terms actually pack in some truly amazing concepts—all in a single word. So, we think it would be wunderbar ("wonderful") if English embraced these nine (not nein!) German gems. 3 Unique Ways To Laugh Online More Amusing Than LOL It's no surprise that different communities and languages have developed all sorts of ways to show when we're in stitches on social and in text messages, from internet acronyms like ROFL to the number 555. Do you know them all? 4 The Important Rise Of "#DemThrones" "#DemThrones" is an unofficial, unlicensed, and organically created social television hashtag, largely used by another cultural phenomenon: Black Twitter. So how did it get started? 5 Why Is "Bisexual" Such A Charged Word In 2019? As the language around gender and sexuality broadens, what it means to be bisexual broadens, too—making it all the more important to attend to the health needs and outcomes for a growing population that is often overlooked when we talk about the LGBTQ community as a whole. © 2019 Dictionary.com, LLC. ABOUT CONTACT You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: matzom229@gmail.com Subscriber since: September 06, 2017 Unsubscribe Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 400 Oakland CA 94607 Manage your subscription Terms & Privacy