Word of the Day
Sunday September 9, 2007

yen \YEN\, noun:
1. A strong desire or inclination; a longing.

intransitive verb:
1. To have a strong desire or inclination; to long.

But all that duty must have incubated a yen for rebellion.
-- Michael Tomasky, "The Candidate", New York Times, March 26, 2000

Mojo, a fellow who's started a successful ice-cream business, likes to think of himself as "a post-Marxist with a yen for a Porsche."
-- Michiko Kakutani, "Alienated Young and Their Solipsistic Pleasures", New York Times, May 7, 1988

We come into the world with a yen for sweets (newborns can even distinguish among glucose, fructose, lactose, and sucrose) and a weak aversion to bitterness, and after four months develop a fondness for salt.
-- Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything

Yen comes from Chinese (Cantonese) yan, "craving."

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for yen

Thank you Bj for the word of the day! :)

Now who is going to give us the sentence of the day? :) ;)

Where's Gaby?? lol :)

Hello Monica

Calling all yenners...............lol.  I wonder if that's a word....rhymes with sinners......lmao

woohoo....Where's Gaby???

Bj