dewshine means the shining of the dew. It carries an Arena rating of 1484, earned across 64 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, dewshine ranks #454 of 13,218 for Most Beautiful Words, #769 of 13,218 for Most Vivid Words, #775 of 13,218 for Funniest Words, #841 of 13,218 for Most Whimsical Words.
Why “dewshine” is a great word
DEWSHINE — [Noun] The glint of sunlight on morning dew; or, in slang, a lethal homemade concoction of Mountain Dew and methanol-laced racing fuel. From dew (moisture condensed from the atmosphere) + shine (to emit or reflect light). Unlike “moonshine,” which denotes illicitly distilled spirits, or “irroration,” which clinically describes the state of being bedewed, dewshine is defined by a treacherous, refractive quality. It is the cold, crystalline fire on a spiderweb at dawn, the deceptive glitter on a blade of grass, and the sickly, fluorescent lure in a plastic bottle—a word whose single vessel holds both nature’s most ephemeral beauty and the desperate, dangerous gleam of counterfeit escape.
Etymology
From dew + shine.
noun
- The shining of the dew.“At dewshine of morning,
At hush of evenfall,
The hills of Connemara —
They hold my soul in thrall.”
- An often lethal drink, a mixture of Mountain Dew and racing fuel that is almost 100% methanol.“2016, Nicole Young, Robertson County Time, 4 'dewshine'-drinking cases are state's first
A mixture of Mountain Dew and racing fuel, called "dewshine," could be to blame for the deaths of two Greenbrier teenagers, whose cases are among the first reported in Tennessee, according to health officials.”
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