Today's word: crack-halter (n.) someone liable one day to be hanged. A "gallows-bird".

Uxoricide is the act of killing your wife. Killing one's husband is known as mariticide. The act that got you there in the first place is known as a wedding ceremony, or "a massive lapse of judgement".

Oh relax, I'm joking! (sort of)

My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

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