Tuesday, August 31, 2010


Word of the Day for Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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beek \BEEK\, verb:
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1. To bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fire.
2. (Of wood) to season by exposure to heat.
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It was a cool Kenyan night and the natives were all beeking by the fireside, when all of a sudden a shrill scream of pain came from one of the tents; nobody paid much attention since it was just the American woman giving birth to her half Kenyan son, later to be known as the great B.O. the Snollygoster!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Beek is related to the same Middle English root that results in bake.

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