| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
 | My new favourite word is indubitably "prill". Prill has a startling quantity of meanings, none of them apparently related, and apparently also none of them making any sense whatsoever. Observe:
1) The brill
2) To flow
3) A stream
Don't be fooled. "To flow" and "a stream" are just a set-up for the gloriously bewildering:
4) (a) A nugget of virgin metal. (b) Ore selected for excellence
5) The button of metal from an assay
Getting dizzy yet? Slight nosebleed?
6) A fish allied to the turbot
That's "allied". Not "related". Contractually obligated to defend the turbot, with their lives if necessary.
Apparently this last definition, the fish with the connections to the hadowy world of the turbot, is "much prized in the UK for its taste".
Really. Dude. I have never seen this fish before in my life.
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