Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Word of the day: egest

The word of the day is egest:
  1. to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest ).
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/egest)


"By the end of the movie, Refn has toyed with cannibalism, lesbian necrophilia, the egestion of an eyeball, and other minor sports, all of them filmed in lavish taste."

 - Anthony Lane, "Pet Peeves", 27 June 2016 The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/wiener-dog-and-the-neon-demon-reviews)

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