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Podcast: Word of the Day
Episode: Hotspur
Description: Hotspur is a noun that refers to a rash, hotheaded person.
The origin of our word of the day comes from the horseback riding times of 15th century England. A spur is a small spiked device used to urge a rider’s horse forward. At times this device would heat up after a long day of use. Soon the term hot spur came to refer to a person with a hot temper.
James has such a reputation as a hotspur that everyone at the office was afraid to tell him the weekly softball game had be...