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Feb 23, 2024

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Words for prisons

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bridewell
gulag
calaboose
panopticon
lob's pound

“Keep your nose clean, keep growing. I’ll have you out here in another six months.”

Cartoon: Dan Piraro

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Adjectives

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

lob’s pound

PRONUNCIATION:

(LOBZ pound or lobz POUND)

MEANING:

noun:
1. Prison.
2. Difficulty.
3. Entanglement.

ETYMOLOGY:

From lob (a bumpkin, lout) + pound (enclosure). Earliest documented use: 1597.

USAGE:

“I know I shall catch her in some lob’s pound.”
Hannah Cowley; The World as It Goes; 1781.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. -Robert Neelly Bellah, sociologist and author (23 Feb 1927-2013)

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