word of the day: zaftig

The word of the day is zaftig:

 

 1. (of a woman) having a pleasantly plump figure.

2. full-bodied; well-proportioned.

< Yiddish zaftik literally, juicy, succulent (dictionary.com) 

"Careening through Schwarzwald was a zaftig Fraulein named Hilda with a hamstrung faun panting in her wake and attempting to woo her in her native tongue, a Wagnerian orchestra hard at work in his imagination overwhelming each mispronunciation."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative