{"id":17738,"date":"2019-01-14T10:43:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17738"},"modified":"2019-01-30T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:06:04","slug":"anatine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/01\/14\/anatine\/","title":{"rendered":"anatine"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our ducks are in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thetimes<\/a> and we had to look up what anatine means <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NXZJ2IK8i2\">pic.twitter.com\/NXZJ2IK8i2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMERL\/status\/1084782207972061184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>If the Museum of English Rural Life had to look up <i>anatine<\/i>, then I suppose there\u2019s no shame in admitting that I did not know it, either.\r\n<p>Looking around, the most comprehensive list of animal adjectives is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davekoelle.com\/animal_terms.html\">Dave Koelle\u2019s site<\/a>. I think I\u2019ve come across less than a third of those words in the wild. My particular favorites are <i>ostracine<\/i>, <i>fulicine<\/i> and <i>hirudine<\/i>, each of which would make lovely, if incomprehensible, insults.\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>anatine, anatine, anatine, anatine&#8230; anserine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17769,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17738\/revisions\/17769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}