The Devil's Dictionary: Yoke
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
YOKE
-n.
An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, jugum, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language - a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it.
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