Peter Sokolowski
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Today's word is rafish, spelled R-A-F-F-I-S-H.
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Rafish is an adjective.
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It describes people and things that show a careless but usually attractive unconventionality.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from Harper's magazine.
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Three or four decades ago, the newspaper man was appealingly rafish, at once a bum who drank too much and a knight errant, who charged unafraid at social injustice, succored the weak, and crossed lances with the powerful and arrogant.
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Rafish combines the English noun raff with the suffix ish, which in this case means characteristic of.
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When we use the word rafish, we literally means resembling Raf.
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But what exactly is Raf?
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You might be more familiar with Raf's synonym, Rifraf, which refers to disreputable people of low social status.
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Despite the resemblance, these two nouns are distinct in origin.
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RAF comes directly from the Middle English RAF RAF.
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meaning rubbish, while rifraf descends from the Anglo French rif e Raf, meaning altogether.
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The similarities between Raf and Riffraf prompted people to start using the two words as synonyms, and Raff gained a rabble sense.
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It was that ragtag raff that gave rise to the adjective rafish in the late seventeen hundreds.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the word of the day for july nineteenth.
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Today's word is accentuate, spelled A-C C E N T U A T E.
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Accentuate is a verb.
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To accentuate something is to make it more noticeable.
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