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This isn't snark. I legitimately tried explaining in my own words. I wasn't satisfied, so: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/poignant http://www.thefreedictionar
by nsmartt 13y ago
This isn't snark. I legitimately tried explaining in my own words. I wasn't satisfied, so: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/poignant http://www.thefreedictionary.com/poignant
- andrewcooke 13y agohmm. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/poignant?q=poignant http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/poignant?q=... (also my dead-tree concise oxford, with a longer entry, doesn't have anything that's not emotionally affected, one way or another). i suspect it's a cultural variation.
- nsmartt 13y agoAs mentioned by one of the other replies, it comes from "to prick" in Old French, so the usage you're seeing—Profoundly moving; touching—seems to align with that fairly well, at a glance.