Today's Words

I just love those words and I could say them all day.

Hoosegow. Calaboose. Heh.

hoosegow or hoosgow (HOOS-gou) noun

A jail.

[From Spanish juzgado (court), past participle of juzgar (to judge), from
Latin judicare (to judge). Ultimately from Indo-European root deik- (to
show or to pronounce solemnly) that is also the source of other words such
as judge, verdict, vendetta, revenge, indicate, dictate, and paradigm.]

Like the word hoosegow there is another slang term for prison that came
from Spanish: calaboose, from Spanish calabozo (dungeon).

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus 3: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=hoosegow

"Throughout 2002 and 2003, the CIA sent Chertoff urgent questions asking
whether various 'interrogation protocols' could get their agents sent
to the hoosegow."
Chris Floyd; Criminal World; The St. Petersburg Times (Russia); Feb 8,
2005.

"The historic looking hoosegow features a pair of cells complete with
iron locks and keys designed by Rose himself."
Timothy Mitchell; From Books to 'Book 'em'; Hamilton Ravalli Republic
(Montana); Feb 1, 2005.

This week's theme: words borrowed from Spanish.

QOTD

To fall in love is to create a religion
that has a fallible god.
~Jorge Luis Borges