The Devil's Dictionary: Portable

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
POPULIST
PORTUGUESE

PORTABLE

-adj.

Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.

His light estate, if neither he did make it
Nor yet its former guardian forsake it,
Is portable improperly, I take it.

- Worgum Slupsky

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