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hallgreening

10th January 2019, 13:17
H???E?O?
7ac] Cons evident here when House goes corrupt-that's a pain.[8]
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mamya

10th January 2019, 13:19
Hoosegow - a Prison

Ho(house) + anag, goes + Ow!
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hallgreening

10th January 2019, 13:21
Ta mamya.
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malone

10th January 2019, 13:22
Hi, Hallgreening. I answered that yesterday - isn't it a lovely word? I'd seen it before but didn't know what it meant.
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mamya

10th January 2019, 13:31
Hi Malone, didn't know it had been asked already - it is a super word.

It has a childlike quality about it .
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malone

10th January 2019, 13:42
Thanks, Mamya. It didn't matter that it had been answered before. I think I'm just surprised sometimes that posters don't look for earlier queries - and the PE crossword doesn't result in lots of threads. The niceness of the word was the real reason for my post!
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stevie gee

10th January 2019, 13:53
Hi folks, I recall the word hoosegow but as far as I remember in the distant past it was from cowboy comics when the bad guy was sent to jail.
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malone

10th January 2019, 14:00
Thanks, StevieGee. I'm hoping to drop the word, casually, into conversation sometime soon. Chambers describes it as American slang, for prison, jail - so your memories are validated!
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stevie gee

10th January 2019, 14:18
Thanks Malone, that is reassuring.
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cerasus

10th January 2019, 14:39
Merriam Webster has an interesting entry for hoosegow and its Spanish /Latin origin. I tried to post it, but was refused. Hope the captcha works this time. I've almost given up with shopfronts and mountains. It only took half an our to post this :(
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