Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17th.
Today's word is affable, spelled A-F-F-A-B-L-E.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The Last Sweet Bite,
Affable is an adjective.
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It describes someone who is friendly and easy to talk to.
It can also describe something, such as someone's personality, that is characterized by ease and friendliness.
He's a big, affable man with a wide, warm smile, built more for a football field than his food truck, Manco.
There is nothing in the meaning of the word affable, it means friendly and easy to talk to, nor in its etymology,
it traces back to the Latin verb affari, meaning to speak to or address,
The word occurred in 102 articles, and in four occurrences it described women, while in 85 occurrences it described men.
to suggest it 's more properly applied to men than to women, but English-speaking people behave as though it is.
In the other cases, affable was used to describe a conga line,
This was not always true.
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In the 16th through the 19th centuries, it was not uncommon to see the word describing women, but no more.
None of this need affect your use of the term.
We once surveyed all the cases in which a single newspaper used affable over a 12-month period.
You should feel free to apply it in whatever way seems suitable.