11 October 2014

exiguous

[ig-zig-yoo-uh s, ik-sig-]

adjective

1. scanty; meager; small; slender:
exiguous income.

Origin
Latin
1645-1655; < Latin exiguus scanty in measure or number, small, equivalent to exig (ere) (see exigent ) + -uus deverbal adj. suffix

Related forms

exiguity [ek-si-gyoo-i-tee], exiguousness, noun
exiguously, adverb

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Examples from the web for exiguous

– The speed at which the firing squads operated made his argument seem exiguous.

Today’s aphorism

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

On this day

11 October – International Day of the Girl.

11 October 1844 – birth of Henry John Heinz, founder of Heinz Company, responsible for canned baked beans. Died 14 May 1919.

11 October 1935 – death of Steele Rudd, Australian author, (pen-name for Arthur Hoey Davis). Wrote ‘On Our Selection‘, which introduced Australia to ‘Dad and Dave’. Born 14 November 1868.

11 October 1930 – Australian Rules football club, Collingwood, win the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.

11 October 1939 – German theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein explains to the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the possibility of building an atomic bomb.

11 October 1967 – premier of the childrens’ TV series, ‘Johnny Sokko and his flying robot‘.