Today's wwftd is... hirudinal

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Aug 29, 2011, 8:29:23 AM8/29/11

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The worthless word for the day is: hirudinal

[fr. L. hirudinem, leech]

Obs. : of or pertaining to a leech

"Like unto the coleopter attacked by a myrmidonian column, like unto the ox assailed by a hirudinal shoal, Gabriel shook himself, squirmed and squiggled, projecting in different directions various human projectiles which flew through the air and ended up by breaking tables and chairs or rolling between the feet of the customers."
- Raymond Queneau, Zazie in the Metro (tr. B. Wright, 2001)