Word 'o the Day

Continuing with the theme from the last thread, the word of the day (at least according to dictionary.com) for Saturday March 11, 2006 is crapulence, which is defined as follows:

crapulous \KRAP-yuh-lus\, adjective:
1. Suffering the effects of, or derived from, or suggestive of gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous stomach.
2. Marked by gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous old reprobate.

These were the dregs of their celebratory party: the half-filled glasses, the cold beans and herring, the shouts and smells of the crapulous strangers hemming them in on every side, the dead rinsed-out April night and the rain drooling down the windows.
-- T. Coraghessan Boyle, Riven Rock

The crapulous life which her future successor led.
-- Lord Brougham, Historical Sketches of Statesmen in the Time of George III

The new money was spent in so much riotous living, and from end to end there settled on the country a mood of fretful, crapulous irritation.
-- Stephen McKenna, Sonia


May I humbly suggest that tomorrow's word of the day be craptacular? (I am guessing that this eventually may find its way into the dictionary, but it might be a while longer.)

Finally, here's another use of today's word of the day: Lemming felt craptacular last Sunday and hence wants to see Night Watch again.