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Provided by the compucert foment \foh-MENT; FOH-ment\, transitive verb:
- To nurse to life or activity; to incite; to abet; to instigate; -- often in a bad sense.
- Fomentation; the act of fomenting.
- State of excitation.
Foment is from Latin fomentum, "fomentation," from fovere, "to warm, to foster, to encourage."
- A car that is wrecked, totaled or not drivable.
- A very old car that needs a lot of servicing.
- A car that is a lemon.
- Any car that either looks like it will, or has fallen completely apart while someone was driving it
Clint took his doom buggy in the shop. But they told him there was nothing more they could do and suggested that he buy a new car.
Trivia
Approximately how many poppy seeds are there in a pound?
- 900,000.
- William Wallace: Scottish nationalist who opposed British rule, and on whom Braveheart was based, was executed in London (1305)
- Franklin: area that is now part of Tennessee seceded from North Carolina; it failed to win acceptance as one of the United States (1784)
- Rudolph Valentino: death at age 31 of the silent screen sex symbol known as the quintessential Latin lover caused mass hysterical mourning (1926)
- Louis XVI (1754-1793): king who was guillotined in the French Revolution
- Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950): author of Spoon River Anthology
- Gene Kelly (1912-1996): dancer/actor/singer, Singin' in the Rain; other performers born on this date include Vera Miles (79), Barbara Eden (74), Shelly Long and Rick Springfield (both 59), River Phoenix (1970-1993), Jay Mohr (38) and Scott Caan (32)
- Robert M. Solow (84): Nobel Prize-winning economist; fellow economist Kenneth Arrow (87) shares this birthday
- Sonny Jurgensen (73): quarterback and NFL hall-of-famer
- Keith Moon (1947-1978): drummer with The Who
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