The Devil's Dictionary: Yoke

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
YESTERDAY
YOUTH

YOKE

-n.

An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, jugum, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language - a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it.

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