Word of the day

[muckefuck]

kwashiorkor

I suspect one or two of you knew this one already, but it was new to me.

Comments

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

I remember reading about hippies in the 70s who ate only "fruit that the plant had willingly given up" (windfall and rot, in other words) ... and raising kids on this diet.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

There was a question about it on my editorial certification test!

[alfaboy.livejournal.com]

isn't that the answer to the question every first grader asks when the teacher shakes down the class for donations to unicef... "if they're starving, how come they're so fat?"

[kayiwa.livejournal.com]

fancy word for malnutrition. Known as the *poor* man's disease -in Kenya, because the not so poor can afford to add protein to their diet with relative ease

etymology

[kayiwa.livejournal.com]

I had no idea it's origins were West African until I just checked my online thesaurus.