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Today's Word "crapulous"

crapulous \KRAP-yuh-lus\ (adjective) - 1 : Suffering the effects of, or derived from, or suggestive of gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous stomach. 2 : Marked by gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous old reprobate.

"His place in the parlour at the George, his absence from church, his old, crapulous, disreputable vices, were all things of course in Debenham." -- Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'

Crapulous is from Late Latin crapulosus, from Latin crapula, from Greek kraipale, drunkenness and its consequences, nausea, sickness, and headache.

This news arrived on: 06/09/2008
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