Today's word: bluenose (n.) a strict prude; a priggish, puritanical person.

I'm informed limericks should be bawdy. This is about as bawdy as I'm going to get on this site. My other half has a far greater repertoire than I do -- her uncle was a sailor in the British navy.

The great thing about this posting is, if anyone complains, I have the perfect word to throw back at them ;-)

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.

Thanks for reading.

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