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We Guarantee a Penguin Editor Will Read Your Manuscript! You'll Receive Written Feedback on Your Writing! Try our online writing course and learn from literary greats like Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Clancy and Amy Tan. Here's Your Chance to Get Published! Click Here to Learn More. http://www.insidesessions.com/promos/promowriting_ec.asp?rid=647 <a href="http://www.insidesessions.com/promos/promowriting_ec.asp?rid=647"< AOL users click here </a< =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word of the Day for Sunday December 9, 2001: foofaraw \FOO-fuh-raw\, noun: 1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration. 2. A fuss over a matter of little importance. A somber, muted descending motif opens and closes the work, which is brief but effective. It provided much needed relief from the fanfares and foofaraw in which brass-going composers so often indulge. --Philip Kennicott, "Brass Spectacular is a Spectacle of Special Sound," [1]St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 17, 1997 After working in the news business for a number of years, I've become a bit cynical about mass-media coverage of events like the Y2K foofaraw. --Roy Clancy, "Ready for Y2K...," [2]Calgary Sun, December 15, 1999 Making the Times best-seller list, or a movie, or all that other foofaraw is not necessarily proof of [a novel's] lasting significance. --Roger K. Miller, "'Peyton Place' was remarkably good bad novel," [3]Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 29, 1996 _________________________________________________________ Foofaraw is perhaps from Spanish fanfarr?n, "a braggart." References 1. http://home.post-dispatch.com/ 2. http://www.calgarysun.com/ 3. http://www.startribune.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-301289Q@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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