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Word of the Day for Wednesday, October 15, 2008waylay \WAY-lay\, transitive verb: 1. To lie in wait for and attack from ambush. When his mother praised certain well-behaved and neatly dressed boys in the village, Jung was filled with hate for them, and would waylay and beat them up. He returned to her night after night, until his brother, Frank, waylaid him one evening outside Harriet's cabin and beat him bloody. Furious and humiliated, the boy waylaid Martha after school. The women, who hold wicker baskets filled with flowers and incense, are out to waylay tourists and to entice them into buying the blooms and scents. Waylay comes from way (from Old English weg) + lay (from Old English lecgan). | |||||||||
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