Thursday HH brainteaser time with @BBCNewcastle! This week...

❓ What do these five words have in common?

SOAK
WELDER
SPINE
WASH
BALDER

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In 18th and 19th century slang, a BUMBRUSHER was a school teacher.

Word of the Day: COCK-MA-DANDY (n.) a priggish, self-important man

To BUFFLE something is to handle it clumsily.

Some words that were originally not quite as general as they are in English today include STUFF (which was once a padded material worn under chainmail), THING (which was a local assembly), and BLOCK (which was a tree stump or log, before only later coming to mean any solid mass).

So that would be most of us 😫

An AVOCAMENT is a deliberately distracting shout or call.

Tuesday HH brainteaser time with @BBCNewcastle! This week ...

❓ Give us a 7-letter word that contains the string of letters –OPMO– somewhere inside it.

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Word of the Day: QUAQUAVERSAL (adj.) moving outwards in all directions from a central point

Word of the Day: COSMODELYTE (n.) someone worried about the state of the world

Something that is KEDOGENIC is caused or brought about by worry.

Thursday HH brainteaser time with @BBCNewcastle! This week ...

❓ What can you add to all four of these 6-letter words to turn them into 10-letter words?

STANDS
PICKED
BASKET
SHAKES

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Word of the Day: INGLE-BRED (adj.) of a person, untravelled or having always lived in the same place

Word of the Day: NIHILAGENT (n.) someone who does nothing

Dating from the 1100s, the French phrase ‘puis né’—literally ‘born after’—was used in official documents to designate younger siblings and junior rather than senior appointees. In the sense of being low-ranking or undeveloped, in English ‘puis né’ eventually became the word PUNY.

Thursday HH brainteaser time with @BBCNewcastle! This week...

❓ Give us a 9-letter word that begins with MO–, and ends with –HT

MO_ _ _ _ _HT

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Word of the Day: VECTARIOUS (adj.) of or relating to a coach or carriage [17thC]

Word of the Day: FARANDMAN (n.) an itinerant, a wanderer

In Old English, to smile was ‘smearcian’. After English picked up the word SMILE itself from a different continental root in the 14th century, the meaning of the existing Old English word was forced to change—eventually becoming the word SMIRK.

Tuesday HH brainteaser time with @BBCNewcastle! This week ...

❓ What is the only 7-LETTER word you can make from the 8 letters in the word WRONGFUL

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