I recently encountered the word \"agida,\" though I'm no longer sure where. Turns out MW11 spells it \"agita,\" and defines it as a feeling of anxiety. One might assume that it derives from \"agitation,\" but MW11 says it's a \"South Italian dialect pronunciation of Italian 'acido,'\" meaning \"acid\" or \"heartburn.\"<\/p>\n
Word Detective<\/a> noted, back in 2000, that \"agita\" is \"more or less the Italian-American equivalent of the Yiddish 'tsuris,'\" and that nobody's sure of its origin; he mentioned \"acido\" as a possible source, but also Italian \"agitare.\"<\/p>\n (Later in that same column, btw, he discusses cock a snook<\/a>, which we also discussed<\/a> a few months back.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently encountered the word “agida,” though I’m no longer sure where. Turns out MW11 spells it “agita,” and defines it as a feeling of anxiety. One might assume that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}