Confession time: the word “purloin” has always reminded me of a nice, juicy piece of medium-rare beef .
I have to say thank you to my poor thesaurus today. For all the complaints I’ve bestowed upon it this month for some of the crappy words I’ve ended up with, this one makes up for them. I love the word “purloin” not because it’s a great word in and of itself, nor because it makes my mouth water, but for its synonyms. Reading through them in my thesaurus is like taking a page out of a noir detective movie starring Humphrey Bogart.
Bugsy made off with the goods, see? He musta pinched them when no one was looking, that dirty, no good thief. We’ve been snaffled.
“Filch, finger, lift, pocket, snitch, and swipe” are a few more.
With that, I think I’ll go to the store and appropriate a steak tomorrow. With my debit card, see?
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April 23, 2017 at 8:09 am
I love a bit of steak and this word reminds me of it too! 🙂
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April 20, 2017 at 6:22 pm
For some reason, I remember there was a story, “The Purloined Letter.” I think it was a Sherlock Holmes story.
Anyway, dinner awaits. Purloin steak!
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April 21, 2017 at 10:33 pm
Never heard of that one. 🙂 Hope no one stole your steak before you got to it! 😉
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April 22, 2017 at 12:03 am
It was Poe who wrote it, not Doyle. Rimg any bells now? 😉
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April 22, 2017 at 10:38 am
Nope. But I’ll look it up. 🙂 Thanks, John.
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April 20, 2017 at 10:06 am
I was taught purloin (11th grade) by a sentence wherein a dog purloins a sirloin from the butcher — seems I will never forget it 🙂
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April 21, 2017 at 10:34 pm
Hehe. Funny how things like that stick with us. 🙂
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April 20, 2017 at 3:36 am
Most things sound better as said by Bogey … or I would think they would
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April 21, 2017 at 10:35 pm
Ah, I get his voice in my head and I can write volumes. Very inspirational. 🙂
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April 20, 2017 at 1:44 am
It just rolls off the tongue… purloooin!
Hope you enjoyed your snaffled (by debit card!) steak!
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April 21, 2017 at 10:37 pm
It does! 🙂 But I didn’t get my steak. At that price, it certainly was not a steal. 😛 😉
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April 22, 2017 at 3:30 am
Aw Maayn!!! Meat is dang expensive though!!!
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