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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 24, 2010zaftig \ZAHF-tik\, adjective: Full-bodied; well-proportioned. Rina's mom had been svelte, her dad had been fit and muscular, yet she'd managed to get the same zaftig genes as her mom's sister. This chair is definitely an affable zaftig blobject, but very expensive compared to, and not very dissimilar from, the cheap $5 garden chairs made of polypropylene. Zaftig is a borrowing from Yiddish, zaftik, literally meaning "juicy." | |||||||||
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