fuscous

[prettygoodword]

fuscous - adj., dark brownish-gray in color.


From Latin. Theme week! This time it's obscure & obsolete colors.

---L.

Comments

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There is a word that sounds like exactly what it is.

I don't mean oenomathopea (sp!), I mean... a word that is somehow really connected to its meaning. When you see "obfuscate," and you had to guess its meaning, no matter what you guessed, when you heard what it does mean, you wouldn't be surprised.

I believe, in fact, there is a word for that phenomenah (words that sound like what they mean), that is not onomeowtophea (sp!).