The Wordnik Word of the Day for June 1, 2012 is

(noun) A thing which has good and bad parts. Chiefly British.

This term comes from a story in Punch, a British weekly magazine, about a curate who, having been served a bad egg by his bishop, said that parts of it were excellent.

This word of the day leads us to another piece of news, both British, and about something which has good and bad parts ...