Today's 'Wordle' Hints And Clues For Monday, January 29th (Wordle ...

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A trip to the gym and a hike in the woods has improved my mood since the weekend considerably. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Do not go gently into this soft night and all that jazz. Go down swinging, young grasshopper. When life gives you lemons, make lemon merengue pie.

Anyways, we’ve entered the final stretch of January. February and its leapish 29 days awaits just around the riverbend. A few more weeks of winter and then we can plunge headlong into spring. Groundhog Day is this Friday. Valentine’s Day is just a couple weeks off. If nothing else, we have chocolate and ROUS’s.

For now, it’s Wordle time. Let’s do this!

Wordle 954

A bit of a tricky word today, being both a little antiquated and comprised of a double letter. My opener, TRADE, was a slight variation on Wordle Bot’s TRACE and left me with 145 remaining solutions. That’s not terrible but not great, either.

From here, I used another word I’ve seen the Bot using in the past. COILS slashed the remaining solutions down to just 13. At this point, I needed either a second ‘E’ or a ‘U’ or a ‘Y’ to vowel-out my Wordle. I chose LUMEN because it fit the bill and because I’m a huge fan of Apple TV’s dystopian show Severance, which everyone should watch immediately.

This left me with just one remaining option, though it did take me a bit to think of what it could possibly be. LEGGY isn’t a word you hear all that often, but it’s a perfect word to describe Roger Rabbit’s wife, Jessica, and her absurdly long legs. Has there ever been a more attractive animated character in all of cinema? I think not.

As for my Competitive Wordle score: 0 points for guessing in four and -1 for losing to the Wordle Bot, who somehow got this one in three. I suspect cheating. Wordle Bot is very sus.

The word 'leggy' is an adjective derived from the noun 'leg.' The term 'leggy' typically means having long or attractive legs, and it is often used in a context to describe someone or something that is notably characterized by their legs.

Etymologically, the word 'leg' has an interesting and somewhat unclear history. It likely comes from Old Norse 'leggr,' meaning 'leg, bone of the arm or leg.' The word 'leg' in English was historically used to describe the limbs of animals, and only later came to refer to the human limb as well. This transition in meaning might have occurred due to the influence of Norse languages following Viking invasions and settlements in England.

The suffix '-y' in English is commonly used to form adjectives, and it often conveys the meaning of 'characterized by' or 'full of.' Therefore, 'leggy' combines the noun 'leg' with the '-y' suffix to form an adjective meaning characterized by legs, especially in the sense of having long or prominent legs.

This etymological development reflects a common process in English where adjectives are formed by adding suffixes like '-y' to nouns, creating a word that describes a characteristic or quality related to the noun.

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