THE WORD OF THE DAY

THE WORD OF THE DAY RETURNS AFTER A BRIEF HIATUS FOR WHICH I AM TO BE HELD IN NO WAY ACCOUNTABLE. BESIDES, IT IS PERILOUS TO POST ON A BENDER. I MEAN A BLENDER. IT IS PERILOUS TO POST ON A BLENDER. A BLENDER FULL OF APPLEJUICE AND PERCOSET. IT IS THE MOST PERILOUS TO POST ON A BLENDER THAT USED TO BE FULL OF APPLEJUICE AND PERCOSET, BUT HAS SINCE BEEN LICKED CLEAN. IF YOU MUST TONGUE FOR THE DREGS, DO SO WITH THE BLENDER OFF OR ON PUREE ONLY. BUT I DIGRESS. I MEAN WE HERE AT THE WORD OF THE DAY DIGRESS. I MEAN EVERYBODY DIGRESSES AT THE SAME TIME.

TODAY'S WORD IS: PURLIEU

n. the area near or surrounding a place

figurative: a person's usual haunts

Brit., historical: a tract on the border of a forest, esp. one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws. (EDITOR'S NOTE: FOREST LAWS SOUNDS ROGUISH AND BADASS)

ORIGIN late 15th cent. (denoting a tract on the border of a forest): probably an alteration (suggested by French lieu ‘place’ ) of Anglo-Norman French puralee ‘a going around to settle the boundaries.’

I FOUND THIS WORD RECENTLY BUT DON'T REMEMBER FROM WHERE (IFTWRBDRFW).

JON'S SENTENCE (JS): In the movie theater parking lot following a Saturday matinee, three schoolchildren found themselves engrossed in a particularly enthusiastic argument (I should mention now that the three schoolchildren held torches for one another, triangularly, which engendered subtextual opinions argued more fervently than is typically considered normal for middle class American preteens, which they were) regarding a graphic film trailer (or preview) that had played before the picture they had set out to see, and how it (the preview) fit (or did not fit) within the confines of their still narrow (but steadily expanding) cultural purviews, when a disreputable idler came into view, shouting, “Get the fuck away from this place! This is mine, this parking lot, this is my purlieu, it’s for me, and not for you!” and the screaming children fled the scene before the man could expose himself, and, consequently, them, to another of the world’s many simple lewdnesses.