Word of the day!

So, here is my new word for today for this week's Something New Challenge. What's yours?

bete noire: N. Something or someone particularly detested or avoided; a bugbear. "Never an exceptional student, Andrews somehow managed to navigate the academy's rigorous courses with satisfactory grades, though all forms of mathematics were agonizing to him, remaining what he called his "bete noire" throughout life." Charles Gallenkamp, Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions.


And, here is how I used yesterday's word, Spoonerism:

I got lucky the first time. I called my mother:

Me: Hi!
Mom: Hi.
Me: I learned a new word today!
Mom: That's nice. Hold on, Michael's hetting the souse on fire...
Me: ...
Mom: Ok, all better.
Me: He was hetting the souse on fire? *laughs*
Mom: You know what I meant!
Me: That was a spoonerism, Ma.

Yeah, I told you this was going to be easy. My night pretty much kept up like that. I got three other spoonerisms from my father and my sister last night. And then I finished off the 5 times requirement by telling Virgina that in just a few hours, my family had provided me with four spoonerisms. So, spoonerism was easy to do. Let's hope bete noire goes as well!