21 November 2013

huzzah

[huh-zah]

interjection
1. (used as an exclamation of joy, applause, appreciation, etc.) hurrah!
noun
2. the exclamation “huzzah.”
3. an instance of giving praise or applause; accolade: The newspaper’s review was one big huzzah for the new movie.
verb (used without object)
4. to shout “huzzah.”
verb (used with object)
5. to salute with huzzahs.
6. an archaic word for hurrah
Also, huz·za.

Origin:
1565–75; variant of earlier hussa, hissa sailors’ cry; see hoise

Related forms
un·huz·zahed, adjective

Today’s aphorism

Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

On this day

21 November 164BC – Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.

21 November 1936 – birth of Victor Chang, a Chinese-Australian cardiac surgeon who pioneered heart transplants. Chang was shot dead on 4 July 1991, in a failed extortion attempt.

21 November 1965 – birth of Bjork (Björk Guðmundsdóttir), Icelandic singer-songwriter, producer and actress.

21 November 1986 – Oliver North, National Security Council staffer, begins shredding documents associated with the Iran-Contra debacle that could have implicated themselves and others within the Reagan administration in the illegal sale of arms to Iran in order to fund the rebel Nicaraguan Contras.