The word of the day is designed to broaden our grammatical horizons. Nothing is more impressive than casually spouting off 5-syllable masterpieces in mid-sentence – except maybe really big boobs… Anyway, every day I’ll post a new word for you to work into daily conversation so that you can wow friends, dazzle coworkers and confuse blonde girls and frat guys, because learning is fun and knowing is half the battle.
  

March 08, 2005

Tortoni

Tor-to'ni: n. "A rich Italian ice cream with fruit and nuts."

I realized that tortoni can accurately be personified using famous Italian people in Hollywood. Leonardo DiCaprio is the fruit and Roberto Benigni is nuts. I'm not sure where the ice cream comes into play, but whatever.

Beat it