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Provided by the compucert exiguous \ig-ZIG-yoo-us\, adjective:
- Extremely scanty; meager.
Urban Word of the Day
October 06, 2007: tottyhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=totty&defid=5125
- n. singular An attractive woman
- n. plural Many attractive women
2) I tell it was wall-to-wall totty in here last night
Trivia
What was the name of the ship used to lay the first successful transatlantic cable in 1866?
- Great Eastern. The largest ship in the world at the time, she was used to lay 1,686 nautical miles of cable between Valencia, Ireland, and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
Today in History
- The Jazz Singer: first full-length talkie debuted with songs and 291 spoken words (1927)
- Yom Kippur War: Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish year (1973); Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Islamic Jihadists during a victory parade in Cairo (1981)
- Elizabeth Taylor: was married for 8th time, to Larry Fortensky (1991)
- James McGill (1744-1813): Canadian businessman whose bequest founded McGill University in Montreal
- Jenny Lind (1820-1887): the "Swedish Nightingale"
- Taylor Hicks (31): silver-haired southern crooner who won American Idol in 2006
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