Word of the Day for Saturday, January 7, 2012
Cimmerian \si-MEER-ee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Very dark; gloomy; deep.
2. Classical Mythology. Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of a western people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.
The B.O. woke up with a start and sat straight up in bed; he felt as if he had just been in a horrific dream of complete Cimmerian despair, with zombie like people walking around with their arms thrust forward and their palms raised upward, and they were all incessantly chanting "More, More, More"; then he realized his dream was actually one about the current state of our economy!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
I was ripe for death, and along a road full of dangers, weakness led me to the boundaries of the world and the Cimmerian land of darkness and whirlwinds.-- Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
Once beneath the over-arching trees all was again Cimmerian darkness, nor was the gloom relieved until the sun finally arose beyond the eastern cliffs, when she saw that they were following what appeared to be a broad and well-beaten game trail through a forest of great trees.-- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed
Like gasconade, cimmerian was originally a toponym. It referred to the Cimmerii, an ancient nomadic people who live in Crimea, according to Herodotus.
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