Semi-useless WOTD for 8-17 and 8-24

8/17/2008 found at Merriam Webster

spavined: old and decrepit : over-the-hill

Garret taught Driver’s Ed with the aid of Lucille, a spavined Keys Cruiser so rusted out that he could use the hole in the passenger-side floorboards as a Fred Flinstone-style emergency break should one of his students fail to yield at an intersection.

8/24/2008 found at Merriam Webster

epigone: follower, disciple

Many laughed at the bathing suit-clad group flailing about on the grass at the park but before the day was over, the fringe sport of synchronized air-swimming had a few new epigones.