auger, augur
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auger, augur
Auger is an Old English word for a tool for boring holes. Augur, from the Latin word for soothsayer, is used occasionally to mean a prophet, but is more usual as a verb in the expressions augur well and augur ill, meaning 'to portend, to suggest a specific outcome'. Examples:
Everything augured badly—they weren't meant to be together—E. J. Howard, 1965
The novel augured well for a successful career in fiction-writing—J. Pope Hennessy.
| audit verb, attributive, attitude | |
| aught, aural, oral, authentic, genuine |
