Friday, May 19, 2023

fey \FAY\, adjective:

1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.
2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant.
3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched.
4. (Scots.) Fated to die; doomed.
5. (Scots.) Marked by a sense of approaching death.

Fey comes from Middle English feye, feie, from Old English fæge, "fated to die."

 

 

 

fungible \FUHN-juh-buhl\, adjective:

1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation.

2. Interchangeable.

noun:

1. Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Usually used in the plural.

Fungible comes from Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi (vice), "to perform (in place of)."

 

post-acquaintance friend request

• The friend request sent right after meeting someone for the first time.

After meeting Ryan at the party, Dave sent him a post-acquaintance friend request to secure their friendship.

History

• Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's second wife was beheaded (1536)
• New England's Dark Day: clouds, smoke and fog combined to obliterate the sun over the northeastern United States (1780)
• Tariff of 1828: was passed to protect US industry; it was denounced as a "tariff of abominations" by critics in the South (1828)
• Marilyn Monroe: crooned ''Happy Birthday, Mr. President'' to John F. Kennedy at a Madison Square Garden fundraiser (1962)

Birthdays 

• Johns Hopkins 1795 - entrepreneur, philanthropist, most noted for the creation of Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Sarah Peale 1800 - Portrait painter
• Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Sinh Cung) 1890 - North Vietnamese Communist revolutionary, prime minister and president
• Bruce Bennett 1906 - Shot putter, actor

  
• George Auld 1919 - Musician
• Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) 1925 - African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist
• Jim Lehrer (James Charles "Jim" Lehrer) 1934 - Journalist, news anchor
• David Hartman 1935 - Television personality
• James Fox 1939 - Actor
• Nancy Kwan 1939 - Actress
• Stephen Young (Stephen Levy) 1939 - Actor
• Francis Scobee (Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee) 1939 - Astronaut, killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger
• Mickey Newbury 1940 - Songwriter
• Nora Ephron 1941 - Diretor, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist
• Peter Mayhew 1944 - Actor ("Star Wars")
• Pete Townsend 1945 - Musician (The Who)
• David Helfgott 1947 - Concert pianist
• Joe Michael "Dusty" Hill 1949 - Musician (ZZ Top)
• Grace Jones 1952 - Singer, model, actress
• Joey Ramone 1951 - Musician (The Ramones)
• Phil Rudd 1954 - Musician (AC/DC)
• Steven Ford (Steven Meigs Ford) 1956 - Actor, son of U.S. President Gerald Ford
• Martyn Ware 1956 - Musician (The Human League)
• Iain Harvie (Del Amitri) 1962
• Jenny Berggren 1972 - Musician (Ace of Base)
• Kevin Garnett 1976 - Basketball player
• Eric Lloyd 1986 - Actor
  Anna Carina "Ophelia Overdose" Jahns 1989 - stunning fetish model \ onlyfans