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Jan 27, 2023
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PRONUNCIATION:
(TOH-koh)
MEANING:
noun: Chastisement; punishment; beatings.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Hindi thoko, imperative of thokna (to strike or beat). Earliest
documented use: 1823. Also see dekko.
USAGE:
“Give him toco! ... Wallop him hard!” Malcolm Archibald; The Fireraisers; Next Chapter; 2019. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man
begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with
the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of
disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes
the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where
faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare
not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. -Learned Hand,
jurist (27 Jan 1872-1961)
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