okay we're jumping right into the thick of things. no pep talk. no background. words of the day, nothing more and nothing less. unadulterated vocab, bitches. that's the way robespierre woulda wanted it.
grudging is merriam-webster's horrible contribution. no interesting new definition, just the same old "unwilling, reluctant" def that we're used to. pretty useless. merry-web tries to spice it up with an incredibly boring etymology involving some confusion in the sixteenth century between "grudge" and "begrudge" but they're not fooling anybody. grudging just plain isn't word of the day material, emdub. i'm gonna grudgingly give this word a D just because "grudging" is kinda fun to say, but it really doesn't have much to offer.
louche, on the other hand, is dictionary.com's pretty impeccable word of the day. actually, this really excels in all of the categories that make a word of the day into the word of a lifetime. first off, i've never even heard this word used before. it's rare! you'll sound pretty intelligent when you toss this word in alongside all the other laudable locutions you spew at the water cooler.
second off it means "of questionable taste", which is a meaning that i need words for pretty much daily. thirdlymost, it's super simple to remember (just think lewd + douche) which makes it easy to use in everyday situations. quarterwise, it's even got a sorta cool etymology. it comes from the old french losche which means "squinty-eyed" and comes from the latin luscus which is also part of the science name for wolverines. okay so for a final rundown, louche is obscure, useful, easy to remember, and vaguely related to wolverines. it gets an A- for all that, and it'd be an A or an A+ if it had more syllables. nice work, dictionary.com
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