word of the day from 16th Century: Fordone

[IcyPeas]

Feel free to use it in a sentence.

Word of the day/evening is ‘fordone’ (16th century): exhausted, overcome, and wrung out.

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[EYESORE 9001]

1. That applies to me today

Especially the ‘wrung out’ part. I feel like a dirty dish rag that’s been twisted asunder. Fordone. Autumn can’t arrive too early to suit me.

[Treefrog]

9. Asunder is a great word too!

Kudos for using it!

[Sneederbunk]

2. Car won't start.

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[Effete Snob]

3. Is it one of the words that RWers use?

Can't be too careful these days.

[Treefrog]

8. Lol!

Well played!

[MineralMan]

4. Nice find!

More recently, it has been turned around, and we say, "Now I'm done for." Or we used to say that. It's pretty much obsolete now, even i the reversed form.

Then, there's "forlorn," which is also a good word. However, nobody knows what "lorn" means or meant. It's no longer used, except in "forlorn."

[unc70]

10. Lorn: forsaken, lacking. Like in lovelorn

[Girard442]

5. I was so verklempt all day now I'm fordone.

[EarnestPutz]

6. I love this. Is this some kind of regular thing? Used to have a desk calendar that had a word...

...of the day and learned quite a few new ones.

[IcyPeas]

7. Susie Dent is on a popular UK program called Countdown....

I don't think she does a Word for the Day every day. Oftentimes the words seem to be very rare and in response to some news story or other or how the nation seems to be feeling generally (just my observation).

this is from wikipedia:

Susan Francesca Dent (born 19 November 1964)[1][2] is an English lexicographer, etymologist and media personality. She has appeared in "Dictionary Corner" on the Channel 4 game show Countdown every year since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, a post-watershed comedy version of the show presented by comedian Jimmy Carr. She has been Honorary Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) since 2016.[3]

She is fun to follow on twitter.

https://twitter.com/susie_dent?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[EarnestPutz]

12. Perfect. Thank you.

[Polly Hennessey]

11. Foredone, I've become.

Weary, exhausted, and faint from talking heads Afghanistan chatter.