Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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yielding \YEEL-ding\, adjective:
yielding \YEEL-ding\, adjective:
1. not resisting; compliant
2. not stiff or rigid; easily bent or shaped
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The B.O. and his crew are going to have great success at ramrodding their morbidly obese "stimulus package" through because their opposition has turned into a bunch of yielding legislators!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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by 1340 from yield, Old English geldan/gieldan "to pay," from Proto Germanic *geldanan "pay," perhaps from Proto Indo-European *ghel-to- "I pay," found only in Balto-Slavic and Germanic. Yielding in sense of "giving up" is c 1425 and "giving way" is by 1588.
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