millefleur \meel-FLER\ - having an allover pattern of small flowers and plants
This is one of the most obvious etymologies I've ever seen in a word I'd never heard before.
dudgeon \DUJ-un\ - a fit or state of indignation
This word always throws me for a loop because, every time I encounter it, my brain expects it to mean something akin to one of its rhymes. In fact, the obsolete term mentioned in the WOTD write-up makes more sense to me.
styptic \STIP-tik\ - tending to contract or bind : astringent; especially : tending to check bleeding
I always know what this means when I see it in context, but not so much when I find it standing alone.
Pretty much caught up now.
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