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the word science confirms more people hate than any other in English
means Slightly wet or damp, in that clinging, humid way that coats a surface without soaking it.
from From Middle English moiste, borrowed from Old French moiste meaning 'damp, wet.' The Latin trail is tangled: it likely braids together mucidus ('moldy, slimy,' from mucus) with musteus ('fresh, new,' as in must, freshly pressed grape juice). So the word's deep ancestry is split between the rot we recoil from and the sweetness of new wine — fittingly conflicted for a term people love to hate.
- peak hatred
- Surveys rank it the most loathed English word
- why it grosses
- Linked subconsciously to mold and bodily fluids
- cake exception
- Beloved on packaging, despised everywhere else
- old roots
- From Latin mucidus, meaning slimy or moldy
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