It's the Word of the Day podcast for December 28th.
Today's word is YEN, spelled Y-E-N.
YEN is a noun.
A YEN is a strong desire, urge, or craving for something.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the banger daily news.
If you've got a yen for succulent right off the boat main sea scallops, now is the time to get them.
Although yen suggests no more than a strong desire these days,
as in a yen for a beach vacation, at one time someone with a yen was in deep trouble.
The first meaning of yen used in the late 19th century was an intense craving for opium.
The word comes from yin-yan, a combination of yin, meaning opium,
and yang, craving, in the Chinese language used in the province of Guangdong.
In English, the Chinese syllables were translated as yen-yen, and eventually shortened to yen.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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