Something for the weekend:
pinfold
• noun - a pound for stray animals.
• verb [with obj.] - confine (a stray animal) in a pinfold.
— origin late Old English pundfald, from a base shared by pond and pound + fold
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Re: Word of the day
Here it is
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
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Re: Word of the day
Bless your cotton socks, Mary - how time flies...
With thanks to Kerren, I thought this deserved repeating:
necessitous
With thanks to Kerren, I thought this deserved repeating:
necessitous
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Re: Word of the day
.........and try saying that word after a pint or three ! 
John Rutley. Prep B & Coleridge B. 1958-1963.