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Explore the people, ideas, and events that shape our culture with SubstanceTV, a DVD videomagazine featuring original content, plus short films, documentaries, music videos, and more. Only $14.95 for a one-year, 10-issue subscription. Subscribe by Oct. 1, 2001 and you could win a Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX-certified computer speaker system. Click for details or to subscribe: http://www.substance.tv/?xpr=dictioncom <A HREF="http://www.substance.tv/?xpr=dictioncom"<AOL users click here</A< \----------------------------------------------------------------/ Word of the Day for Saturday October 13, 2001: hector \HEK-tur\, noun: A bully. transitive verb: To intimidate or harass in a blustering way; to bully. intransitive verb: To play the bully; to bluster. At both ends of the escalators, attendants... hector and berate any passenger who steps out of line. --Jeffrey Tayler, "A Means of Transport," [1]The Atlantic, February 1998 . . . salespersons who glom onto you and relentlessly hector you until you buy a service agreement. --Dave Barry, "Service Calls," [2]Washington Post, September 2, 2001 _________________________________________________________ Hector derives from Greek Hektor, in Greek mythology the chief Trojan warrior and the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy. References 1. http://www.theatlantic.com/ 2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-301289Q@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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