Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/2025/June

1. A broad belt, originally of leather and often richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip (across the breast and under the opposite arm), which was formerly used to hold a sword, a bugle, etc., and is now chiefly worn for ceremonial purposes; also (loosely), any belt.
2. (obsolete)
   1. (by extension) A (usually leather) strap from which the clapper of a bell is suspended.
   2. (by extension) A necklace.
   4. (figurative) The zodiac (“belt-like region of the celestial sphere, approximately eight degrees north and south of the ecliptic, which includes the apparent path of the sun, moon, and visible planets”).

The first episode of the British television comedy series Blackadder was broadcast on 15 June 1983—Baldrick was a character from the show.

1. (UK, informal) Any ordinary woman, especially an older woman.

The first episode of the British television comedy series Blackadder was broadcast on 15 June 1983—Mrs. Miggins was a character from the show.

1. (computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.

quine v (transitive)

1. To append (a text) to a quotation of itself.
2. (philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of (something obviously real or important).

quine adj

1. (botany, obsolete, rare) Of leaves: arranged in whorls of five.

The American logician and philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, who lent his name to some senses of the word, was born on this day in 1908.