I just heard "guestimation", when you are not sure about an estimation and you guess. I'm adding this to my vocabulary next to "automagical" (when something works automatically, you have no idea how, so it's like magic)
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The Oxford English Dictionary online word of the day is: puckfoisted. It means to be cheated by a demon, bewitched.

I love this word.

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Word of the day - semiotic

relating to signs and symbols.
"the gestures, images, and objects notated in his scripts share a semiotic importance equal to the spoken text"

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! I can use the idiom "two peas in a pod" in my mid-Victorian WIP! #ILoveWords #EtymologyRocks