Peter Sokolowski
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1,510 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Their verb speed spelled SPEN means to rush forcefully along with a strong wind.
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So speedrift was
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Referred to a drift of salty sea spray during such sailing.
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In the eighteen twenties, English speakers recruited the word but signed it up as spindrift.
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At that time, its sole duty was to refer to the driving spray at sea.
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By the mid twentieth century, English speakers realized that spindrift had potential to serve on land as well, and the word was sent ashore to be used for wind borne snow and sand.
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Today spindrift still serves the language commendably by land and by sea.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sogolowski.
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Visit MarionWebster dot com today for definitions, wordplay, and trending word lookups.
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It's Merriam Webster's word of the day for july thirty first.
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Today's word is cumli, spelled C O M E L Y.
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Cumli is an adjective.
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It's an adjective with an old fashioned and literary feel that describes someone or something that has a pleasing appearance or that is pretty or attractive.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the New York Times.
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One of the first things I noticed when I moved to Berlin ten years ago was something odd about the pigeons here.
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Some of them were pretty, far comelier than Manhattan pigeons.
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Comely, especially when compared to its more common synonyms, including lovely, handsome, and beautiful, has an old fashioned flair.
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These days, it's used especially by writers of historical fantasy to modify words referring to women, such as maiden and damsel, that also suggest real or imagined days of castles and courts.
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but comely need not be restricted to such uses, and indeed it historically was not.
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Its oldest meaning in English, from the fourteenth century and still used to day, describes things that conform pleasurably to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion, as when Willa Cather wrote, that they observed all that was neat and comely,
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