Each week, I’m going to present an amazing word. A word that
has a double meaning either directly or perhaps through origin, where is has
evolved into a new meaning, or carries a wonderful Onomatopoeic effect.
This week my amazing word is:
SANGUINE
Sanguine is a deliciously
contrary word, bloodthirsty or optimistic, bloodred and ruddy or confident. Sanguine is a six hundred years old
word meaning of blood; however, the meaning
"cheerful, hopeful, confident" first attested because these qualities
were thought in medieval physiology to spring from an excess of blood.
Example
Annabel, the high school prom queen, had a sanguine disposition, happy, confident,
and, as Jane was to soon discover, mercilessly violent.
