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Word of the Day for Friday, January 28, 2011rakish \REY-kish\, adjective: 1. Smart; jaunty; dashing. Just as they stepped into the house Beard remembered that it was Patrice's afternoon off, and there she was, at the head of the stairs, in rakish blue eye patch, tight jeans, pale green cashmere sweater, Turkish slippers, coining down to meet them with a pleasant smile and the offer of coffee as her husband had made the introductions. General Bernard Rutkowski, his cap set at a slightly rakish, angle strode along the tunnel. Rakish enters the English lexicon in the 1700s, but rake, as in "immoral person," goes back further, possibly descended from the Middle English rakel, "headstrong." | |||||||||
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