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Feb. 1st, 2011
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Feb. 1st, 2011
caliginous
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caliginous
(kuh-LIJ-uhn-us) - adj., misty, dark, murky, obscure.
No, nothing to do with what's in your joints. Borrowed in the 1540s from Latin cālīginōsus, either directly or via Middle French caligineux, from cālīgō, darkness, gloom, mist.
---L.
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