Today's Word "wayworn"
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wayworn \WAY-worn\ (adjective) - Wearied by traveling.
"Suppose some of the boys had seen me coming through Canterbury, wayworn and ragged, and should find me out? What would they say, who made so light of money, if they could know how I scraped my halfpence together, for the purchase of my daily saveloy and beer, or my slices of pudding?" - Charles Dickens, 'David Copperfield'
Wayworn is way (from Old English weg) + worn (from Old English werian).
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