Word of the Day, an occasional feature

"If words, as Samuel Johnson said, are the 'dress' of rational thought, a good vocabulary is the Wonderbra of intellect." Hilary Bower

kaboo

Nearby area, local, neighborhood.

"We were hangin' in the kaboo." or "How far is it? Just in the kaboo. It's nuthin'."

This occasional feature makes liberal use of the Urban Dictionary for definitions and A Wee But Chockablock Vocabulary Book by Ernest Garrett for quotations. I don't know who Ernest Garrett is, but he wrote a very good book. My friend Stagg sent it to me some time ago in a box full of assorted ephemera (that's why they call him the Emperor of Ephemera).