Thoughts on a Thursday...

Another word from my recent reading! Geez! I thought I was reading fluff!!

Always fun to learn something new, though...

World English Dictionary

laconic or laconical  (ləˈkɒnɪk)
— adj
	(of a person's speech) using few words; terse
[C16: via Latin from Greek Lakōnikos,  from Lakōn  Laconian,Spartan; referring to the Spartans' terseness of speech]
laconical or laconical
— adj
[C16: via Latin from Greek Lakōnikos,  from Lakōn  Laconian,Spartan; referring to the Spartans' terseness of speech]
la'conically or laconical
— adv

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laconic 

"concise, abrupt," 1580s, from Gk. Lakonikos, from Lakon "personfrom Lakonia," the district around Sparta in southern Greece inancient times, whose inhabitants were famously proud of theirbrevity of speech. When Philip of Macedon threatened them with,"If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta to the

ground," the Spartans' reply was, "If." Related: Laconically.