Jofrog is Knitfrog!
February 7 2005
My twin great aunts,
daughters to my 100 year old great grandmother, send me their "Word of the Day" yesterday. I thought you'd enjoy it as well.
*1 : to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another
Example sentence:
Did you know?
I've actually been very enamored with a project in Hip to Crochet lately. I keep thinking about it, the yarn, the final product. Do you know which project it is? Care to hazard a guess? Maybe someone will want to crochet along with me in the future! I definitely have higher priority projects first, but at some point I think that I will actually have a crochet project thrown in the mix, by choice! Oooh, isn't this all so mysterious, aren't you dying to know? Eh, don't put too much thought into it, enjoy the day instead!A Post About Crocheting?
encroach \in-KROACH\ verb
2 : to advance beyond the usual or proper limits
The police offered a compromise that kept the sidewalk clear without encroaching on the protesters' rights.
The history behind "encroach" is likely to hook you in. First appearing in English in the 16th century, the word derives from the Middle English "encrochen," which means "to get or seize" and whose Anglo-French predecessor "encrocher" was formed by combining the prefix "en-" ("in") with the noun "croche" ("hook"). "Croche" also gave us our word "crochet," in reference to the hooked needle used in that craft. "Encroach" carries the meaning of "intrude" both in terms of property (as in "encroaching on one's land") or privilege (as demonstrated in our example sentence). The word can also hop over legal barriers to describe a general advancement beyond desirable or normal limits (such as a hurricane that encroaches on the mainland).
