[word-lover] 【整理】2016-05-17 How to Use a Word

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Today's word is hector, spelled H-E-C-T-O-R.

Hector is a verb that means to play the bully, to swagger. It can also mean to intimidate or harass by bluster or personal pressure. Here is the word used in a sentence from The Los Angeles Times by Michael Hiltzik.

"For several years now he has been making life easier for every journalist who follows the Affordable Care Act by heroically compiling health insurance enrollments under the law, explaining developments, debunking myths, and hectoring the nearly infinite sources of mis- and disinformation … into getting things right."

Hector wasn't always a bully. In Homer's Iliad, the eldest son of King Priam of Troy was a model soldier, son, father, and friend, the champion of the Trojan army until he was killed by the Greek hero Achilles. How did the name of a Trojan paragon become a generic synonym of bully? That pejorative English use was likely influenced by gangs of rowdy street toughs who roamed London in the 17th century and called themselves "Hectors." They may have thought themselves gallant young blades, but to the general populace they were merely swaggering bullies who intimidated passersby and vandalized property. By 1660, hector was being used as a noun for the sort of blustering braggarts who populated those gangs, and as a verb as well.

With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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