Hoosegow & Pokey « The Word Detective Hoosegow & Pokey Lemme outta here. Dear Word Detective: Where did the words “hoos-cow” and “pokey” originate as slang for jail? — Siobhan Taaffe. Oh boy, jail. Also known as the slammer. The tank. The big house. The clink. The joint. The Graybar Hotel. The cooler. Stir. Inside. Gosh, you’d never guess that the US has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world, would you? So it’s not very surprising that we have so many slang synonyms for “correctional institution.” By the way, every time I hear the euphemism “correctional institution,” I picture a training school for proofreaders, which is ironic because I once worked with two proofreaders who were eventually dragged away by the FBI for insider trading. Much as I like the spelling “hoos-cow” (“Hoos cow is that in the cafeteria?”), the standard form of the word is “hoosegow” (although there are more than a thousand Google hits for “hooscow,” so that may change).

“Hoosegow” is a souvenir of our close connection to Mexico, a modified form of the Mexican Spanish word “juzgado,” meaning “jail.” The original meaning of “juzgado,” interestingly, was “tribunal” or “court,” and the word is derived from the Latin “judicare,” meaning “to judge” (and from which our “judge” and “judgment” also derive). “Hoosegow” first arose in the the western US, probably in the 19th century, although the first occurrence of the word in print found so far is from 1908. “Pokey” as slang for “jail” dates to early 20th century America and is actually a variant form of “pogey,” a 19th century English word for “poorhouse” or “welfare hotel.” The roots of “pogey” are largely a mystery, but the word may be related to the adjective “poky,” an interesting word in itself.

The original sense of “poky,” in the 18th century, was, logically, “something that pokes,” i.e., projects or points out (as in a “poke bonnet,” a style of the day that featured a prominent brim). In the 19th century, the word came to mean “cramped or confined,” as a small room might make a resident feel “poked at” by the walls. Since jail cells are not known for their generous elbow room, this is probably the connection between “poky” (cramped) and “pokey” (jail). “Poky” also acquired the meaning of “dull, narrow-minded and slow” here in the US, probably from that same sense of “cramped.” “Poky” today is a useful little word that can be applied to anything from horses (“Plop, plop, plopity plop… The feet of Father Ready’s poky old saddle horse slowly ate upon the weary miles,” 1932) to computer programs (“HyperCard is quite poky when running on a standard 1-megabyte Mac Plus, even from a hard disk,” 1989).

Urban Dictionary: clink The clink! The name of a prison which was on Clink Street in the Southwark area of London. I always thought that the doors of the cells went "clink" when they shut behind the prisoner. Maybe a more accurate name would be the "clang". by VAKI5 May 09, 2005 Pokey - definition of pokey by The Free Dictionary Pokey - definition of pokey by The Free Dictionary Related to pokey: Hokey pokey po·key 1 also po·ky (pō′kē) n. pl. po·keys also po·kies Slang A jail or prison. Noun 1.

pokey - a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) bastille - a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) correctional institution - a penal institution maintained by the government holding cell - a jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial hoosegow , hoosgow - slang for a jail house of correction - (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences lockup - jail in a local police station workhouse - a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months Adj. slow - not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth" 2.

pokey - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" pokey 1 poke (pəuk) verb 1. to push something into; to prod. He poked a stick into the hole; He poked her in the ribs with his elbow.

steek يَدفَع، يَنْخُسُ мушкам espetar strčit, šťouchnout stoßen støde; puffe χώνω , μπήγω , σπρώχνω meter torkama, müksama سیخونک زدن؛ فرو کردن tökätä enfoncer לִתקוֹע ढकेलना gurkanje lök(dös) menusuk pota í cacciare ; dare un colpetto 突く 쑤시다 (pa)stumti, kumštelėti []bikstīt mencuit; menyiku porren , steken stikke , dytte wetknąć , szturchnąć كښته وړل espetar a împinge; a înghionti тыкать , толкать strčiť, štuchnúť dregniti ćušnuti stöta [till], sticka ผลัก dürtmek 插 совати, пхати گھسانا đẩy

; chọc 插 2.

to make (a hole) by doing this. She poked a hole in the sand with her finger.

steek يَثْقُب правя дупка в fazer um buraco udělat (díru) bohren stikke ανοίγω τρύπα, σκαλίζω hacer un agujero uuristama کندن pistää faire un trou dans לַעֲשוֹת חוִר ठेलना čeprkanje döf membuat lubang stinga (gat á) (fare un buco) つついてあける 쑤셔 구멍을 만들다 išdurti []bakstīt; []durt mengorek boren stikke hull i dziurawić, przebijać شكول fazer um buraco a face (o gaură) протыкать urobiť (dieru) zvrtati (luknjo) napraviti rupu peta, sticka เจาะ (รู) batırarak delik açmak 捅(洞) протикати چھيد کر سوارخ کرنا chọc thành lỗ 捅（洞） 

3.

to (cause to) protrude or project. She poked her head in at the window; His foot was poking out of the blankets. uitsteek يُبْرِزُ издавам projetar(-se) vstrčit; vystrčit strecken stikke χώνω , προεξέχω asomar välja pistma بیرون آمدن työntyä esiin dépasser לִתחוֹב izbiti ki- v.

bedugja (a fejét) menyembulkan reka (út um) sporgere 突き出す 내밀다 (iš)kišti, kyšoti izbāzt[]; pabāzt[] menjengukkan; terjulur steken stikke gjennom/ut fra wystawać , wystawiać باندى راوتل projectar a scoate высовывать(ся) (vy)strčiť pomoliti; moleti proturiti sticka โผล่ออกมา uzatmak, çıkmak (頭向外)伸 висовувати(ся) ڈالنا thò ra （头向外）伸 noun an act of poking; a prod or nudge. He gave me a poke in the arm.

steek نَخْسَه، دَفْعَه мушване cotovelada rýpnutí, šťouchanec der Stoß stød; puf σκουντιά empujón , golpe müks سقلمه؛ ضربه tökkäys coup דחיפה टिहुतियाव, कुहनी की मार bockanje lökés sodokan olnbogaskot gomitata 一突き 찌르기 kumštelėjimas, niuksas piebikstīšana; dunka; belziens cuitan por dytt , støt pchnięcie , szturchnięcie ضربه cotovelada ghiont толчок , тычок štuchanec sunek ćuškanje stöt, knuff การกระทุ้ง หรือสะกิด düt(ükle)me 捅 поштовх, стусан دھکا cú đẩy; cú chọc 捅 ˈpoker noun a (usually metal) rod

 for stirring up a fire.

poker مِحْراك النّار ръжен atiçador pohrabáč der Feuerhaken ildrager σκαλιστήρι φωτιάς atizador (ahju)roop میله hiilihanko tisonnier מַחתָה कुरेदनी žarač piszkavas pengorek api skörungur attizzatoio 火かき 부지깽이, 불쑤시게 žarsteklis (krāsns) kruķis penggodek api kachelpook ildrake pogrzebacz ميله، راد atiçador vătrai кочерга kutáč grebljica žarač eldgaffel แท่งโลหะสำหรับเขี่ย ocak sürgüsü 火鉗 коцюба کرچھا، آگ کريدني que cời lửa 拨火棍 ˈpoky, pokey adjective (of a room etc) small, with not enough space.

klein ضَيِّق тесен apertado těsný eng trang στενάχωρος, άβολος minúsculo , diminuto kitsas تنگ و تاریک ahdas exigu צר जरा सा जगह skučen szegényes kecil þröngur piccolo 狭い 비좁은 ankštas šaurs; saspiests sempit benauwd trangt om plassen ciasny تور او تياره acanhado strâmt, îngust тесный tesný majhen tesan trång, kyffig แคบ ufak , kutu gibi 狹小的，簡陋的(地方) тісний تنگ، چھوٹا nhỏ 狭小的，简陋的（地方） poke about/around to look or search for something among other things.

rondsoek يُفَتِّش търся tatear prohrabávat herumtasten lede igennem; rode rundt ανασκαλεύω fisgonear tuhnima دنبال چیزی گشتن penkoa fourrager לְחַטֵט खोजना njuškati po, prčkati po tapogatózva keres mencari-cari snuðra; gramsa í frugare 探す 뒤지다 naršyti, šniukštinėti okšķerēt; taustīties menyelongkar overal zoeken snuse omkring myszkować په يو شې پسى ګرځيدل tactear a căuta (prin) искать , шарить prehrabávať (sa) brskati pretraživati gå och rota (snoka) ตรวจค้น karıştırarak aramak 尋找，逛，閒盪 цікавитися ڈھونڈنا lục

 tìm 寻找，逛，闲荡 poke fun at to laugh at unkindly.

The children often poked fun at him because of his stammer.

spot, terg يَهْزأ بِ، يَسْخَر من надсмивам се fazer troça de posmívat se sich lustig machen über gøre grin med κοροϊδεύω , πειράζω άσχημα burlarse de alguien narritama مسخره کردن pilkata se moquer de לִלעוֹג की हंसी उड़ाना, का उपहास करना podbadanje kinevet menertawakan gera gys að prendere in giro ～をからかう 놀리다 pasijuokti iš zoboties; apsmiet mentertawakan voor de gek houden drive gjøn med robić pośmiewisko z مسخره كول fazer troça de a râde de насмехаться над posmievať sa norčevati se ismevati göra narr av หัวเราะใส่ alay etmek 取笑某人 підсмію

ватися مذاق اڑانا chế giễu ai 取笑某人 poke one's nose into to interfere with other people's business.

He is always poking his nose into my affairs.

jou neus in sake steek يَحْشُر أنفَهُ намесвам се meter o nariz em strkat nos do überall seine Nase hineinstecken stikke sin næse i χώνω τη μύτη μου, παρεμβαίνω meter la nariz en oma nina toppima فضولی کردن nuuskia muiden asioita fourrer son nez dans לִתחוֹב אֶת הַאָף वह हमेशा मेरे मामले में टांग अड़ाता है zaviriti beleüti az orrát ikut campur snuðra, hnÿsast í ficcare il naso in おせっかいする 참견하다 kišti nosį į bāzt degunu cita darīšanās menjaga tepi kain orang zijn neus ergens insteken legge nesen sin opp i wścibiać nos w nie swoje sprawy مداخل

ه كول meter o nariz em a-şi vârî nasul în совать свой нос в strkať nos do vtikati nos v gurati nos u tuđe stvari lägga näsan i blöt สอดรู้สอดเห็น burnunu sokmak 管閒事，干涉他人的事 сунути свого носа مداخلت کرنا chõ mũi vào chuyện người khác 干涉他人的事 Historic Prisons - London for Free London for Free You are here: Home / Places to Visit / Historic Prisons Historic Prisons London has had many prisons, the most famous one being the Tower of London.

Victorian London was notorious for its prisons and places of correction – the harsh conditions and cruel treatment of prisoners being vividly described by Dickens. Read more about the history of London’s prisons. Though the Victorian places no longer exist it is possible to visit the sites where they once stood, which will also take you into interesting areas of London. All for free, of course. It is possible to visit the Tower of London (admission charge). Tower of London The Tower of London is the most popular tourist attraction in London and one of the greatest examples of Norman architecture anywhere in the world. It was begun by William I around 1066 and built deliberately just outside the City boundary to warn potential troublemakers. It was then extended by a number of monarchs until Edward I, and has been a palace, prison, menagerie, place of execution and stronghold for the crown jewels. Famous occupants have included Sir Francis Drake, Anne Boleyn (executed by sword), Sir Walter Raleigh and Rudolph Hess during the second world war. Nearest underground station: Tower Hill Newgate Prison Newgate prison existed on the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey for seven hundred years.

The prison was destroyed and re-built several times throughout its history, including during the Great Fire of London and during prison riots. By 1783, it was London’s main prison and the city’s gallows were moved from Tyburn to Newgate Street. In 1868, public executions were discontinued and held instead inside the prison. The prison was demolished in 1904. Nearest underground stations: St Pauls Marshalsea Prison Mostly known as a debtors prison, Marshalsea prison existed in Borough High Street for over five hundred years – closing in 1842. It was a national prison, second only to the Tower in importance, and became renowned worldwide thanks to Dickens, who wrote about life in a debtors prison in his novels such as Little Dorritt. Dickens’ father was sent to Marshalsea in 1824 owing a debt of forty pounds. It is one of the few historic prisons where part of the original buildings remain. You can still see one of its walls and two original gate arches in the yard next to St George the Martyr church.

Nearest underground station: Borough Bridewell House of Correction Established as a house of correction in 1556 in a former royal palace (Bridewell), this prison was for housing vagrants and homeless children and punishing petty criminals and unruly women. The prison also contained workrooms and a hospital. It was largely destroyed in the Great Fire of London and re-built soon after, before being finally demolished in 1863. All that remains of the prison buildings is the gateway on New Bridge Street at number 14. The rest of the old site is now occupied by the Unilever Building on the corner. Nearest railway station: Blackfriars Cold Bath Fields Prison This large prison in Clerkenwell was also known as Clerkenwell Jail. It was built in 1794 on the site of what is now the Royal Mail sorting office at Mount Pleasant. Some of the prison wall pillars still remain. It was renowned for the harshness of its punishments, including enforced silences and solitary confinement. By the mid nineteenth century, its name had changed to Middlesex House of Correction. It was closed in 1877 and demolished in 1889.

Nearest railway station: Farringdon Fleet Prison Situated on the eastern side of Farringdon Road, Fleet Prison was mainly a debtors’ prison. William Penn was held there in 1707-1709 for debt. However,the prison also held political and religious prisoners. In 1601, the poet John Donne was imprisoned in it for marrying a woman without her father’s consent. The prison was destroyed in the Great Fire of London and soon after, re-built. However, it no longer exists today. There was large scale prison corruption, with prisoners being allowed out of the prison on payment of fees to the keeper, and those who were unable to afford the fees, being forced to share crowded, lice-ridden cells. Dickens described the prison in Pickwick Papers. It was finally closed down in 1842. Nearest railway station: Blackfriars Clerkenwell House of Detention There has been a prison on this site since 1616, although the only remaining part of it – its tunnels – were built in 1844. It was largely used as a detentional prison and an estimated 10,000 people a year passed through its gates.

The prison was demolished in 1890, but an entire underground section survived and lay undisturbed until the bombs of the Blitz saw it reopened as an air-raid shelter. The site of the prison is now occupied by the Hugh Myddleton School building (now converted into residential flats). However, it is possible to access the tunnels from Clerkenwell Close, behind St James Church. Nearest underground stations: Farringdon, Angel Gatehouse Prison Built in 1370, it was originally part of a prison which existed in Westminster Abbey’s gatehouse. Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned in it on the eve of his execution at the Tower of London in 1618. It is believed that the saying, “stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage” was written here by the poet, Lovelace, in 1642. In 1689, Samuel Pepys was imprisoned in it. It was demolished in 1776 and the site is now occupied by Westminster School’s Crimean War Memorial (the tall column) which stands in front of Westminster Abbey, in Broad Sanctuary.

Nearest underground station: Westminster King’s Bench Prison This prison originally stood on the east side of Borough High Street, and in 1755 it moved to a larger area at St George’s Fields. The majority of prisoners were debtors, and they were often joined by their families. Dickens wrote about it in David Copperfield, with Mr Micawber being imprisoned in it for debt. In 1828, the prison was described as “the most desirable place of incarceration in London” – the courtyard was full of traders and there were a large number of gin shops on site. Rich prisoners even had a regular cook to prepare their meals. By the 1870’s the prison had closed. Nearest underground station: Borough Clink Prison This was a small prison connected to Winchester Palace on Bankside. First mention of it is in 1509 and it was destroyed in 1780. It was for those who committed offences on Bankside and in the nearby brothels, which were controlled by the Bishop of Winchester. Prisoners included both Protestant and Catholic prisoners of conscience, and towards the end of its existence it was also a debtor’s prison.

The Clink Prison Museum, in Clink Street, sits on the site of the original prison. Nearest underground station: London Bridge Horsemonger Lane Jail Built as a model prison in 1791, and renamed Southwark County Gaol in 1859. The gatehouse had gallows on the roof and it was here that Charles Dickens witnessed a double hanging in 1849. This led him to write to The Times condemning public execution and helped lead to its abolition in this country. 131 men and 4 women were executed at the jail between 1800 and 1877. The jail itself closed in 1878 and was demolished in 1880. Newington Gardens now occupies the site of the jail. Nearest underground station: Borough Email “I’m gonna kidnap a kidnapper for the money he kidnapped for.” Ever lie in bed at night and wonder if an old movie exists where Lon Chaney takes a blowtorch to Charles Bronson’s face?

Well it does and it’s the 1955 prison drama BIG HOUSE U.S.A., a gritty but forgotten crime tale about a desperate group of loathsome men played by an amazing cast of manly B-movie bad guys. Chaney and Bronson act alongside Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, and William Talman. They’re all villains who meet cruel but deserved ends in BIG HOUSE U.S.A., one of the most mean-spirited prison escape/kidnap caper thriller ever made (and I mean that as a good thing). I saw it on TV when I was very young and its vicious violence stayed with me for decades until I was finally able to see it again thanks to MGM’s ‘On Demand’ Classics Collection. BIG HOUSE U.S.A.’s story begins with an asthmatic rich kid getting lost while attending a ‘mountain ranger’ summer camp (locations filmed at Colorado’s Royal Gorge Park). Shady hiker Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) discovers the boy and pretends to help him, but really has decided to hold him for a half million dollar ransom and locks him in a forest lookout tower. The kid tries to escape but falls from the tower to his death.

Barker hides the body, retrieves the ransom money, and tries to flee the area. Caught, he’s only convicted of extortion since it can’t be proven he had anything to do with the boy’s disappearance. BIG HOUSE U.S.A. switches gears at this point and settles for a while into a standard prison story, focusing on four hard-as-nails convicts that Barker is thrown into the slammer with; Rollo Lamar (Broderick Crawford), Machinegun Mason (William Tallman), Alamo Smith (Lon Chaney), and Benny Kelly (Charles Bronson). A breakout is planned with their target being the hidden ransom money. The escape is a success and with the Feds and park rangers soon on their tail, the gang begins to turn on each other. Mistrust, double-crosses and grisly murders ensue. With its superb low-budget production BIG HOUSE U.S.A. is a brutal fast-paced film that deserves to be rediscovered. Divided into three distinct chapters, the opening kidnap section is presented in a Dragnet pseudo-documentary style. There is a lot of narration in this first half hour, much of it pointless to the story.

Once Barker is in the clink, the narration ends, the look and tone of the film changes and BIG HOUSE U.S.A becomes a rough and tumble prison noir. The moody black-and-white photography perfectly captures the dank confines of the individual cells (five men to each!). The old-time jailhouse movie is by definition an exercise in nostalgia and the middle section of BIG HOUSE U.S.A. gives us the genuine article, a sweaty, tense tale from inside the big house. Casabel Island Prison comes off as a hotbox of violence and there are some grisly scenes in this portion of the movie, including one where a prisoner is scalded to death in a boiler. After the escape, the setting switches back to the sunny mountain terrain for a chase climax not as atmospheric as the prison stuff but exciting and violent nonetheless. BIG HOUSE U.S.A. is filled with images of extreme violence (especially for 1955). The only sympathetic character is the kidnapped child and he is killed off at the 15 minute mark (curiously, he’s never mentioned again and his grieving father disappears from the story as well).

The police are kept mostly off-screen throughout so the main characters depicted are completely immoral, a device that works here because of its powerhouse cast. Ralph Meeker played hard as Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrichâ€™s cult item KISS ME DEADLY the same year and his sneering Barker is the type of villain an audience loves to hate. Broderick Crawford delivers a snarling, over-the-top performance as the ringleader of the escapees. Crawford had won an Oscar six years earlier for ALL THE KINGS MEN and at this time was star of the popular TV show Highway Patrol. It’s rumored that Crawford was such a serious drunk that he sometimes had to deliver his lines lying down on a painted backdrop with the camera pointed straight down at him because he couldn’t stand up. One of his drinking buds at the time was BIG HOUSE U.S.A costar Lon Chaney, who delivers a mean bully performance, and it must have been an interesting shoot with these two boozers on the set.

William Talman was a tall burly character actor memorable as the killer in the 1953 noir classic THE HITCH-HIKER but is best known for his role as Hamilton Burger, the district attorney who perpetually lost to Perry Mason in the long-running series Perry Mason. But the scene-stealer in BIG HOUSE U.S.A. is 34-year-old Charles Bronson in one of the first in a career of physical performances. Bronson’s Benny is a coiled, short-fused psycho, unlike the laconic laid-back persona he developed when he became the world’s biggest star almost twenty years later. His muscular physique must have been startling to 1955 audiences and in a movie populated with bruisers, Bronson comes off as the toughest. Most critics at the time took notice of the film’s sadism. The U.K.’s Monthly Film Bulletin was properly appalled: “The characters here depicted are so brutal as to anesthetize all sympathy, and their savagery is minutely explored by the director, Howard W. Koch, in a manner that leaves one shocked yet disinterested” they wrote. BIG HOUSE U.S.A. was for years a difficult movie to find.

It was near the top of my want list and had never had any type of release for home viewing. At the dollar store once I ran across a cheap public domain DVD of a film titled RANSOM MONEY and the packaging claimed it starred Broderick Crawford, Lon Chaney, and Charles Bronson. Assuming it was a retitling of BIG HOUSE U.S.A., I excitedly purchased it only to discover at home that it was a 1970 TV movie called RANSOM MONEY and Chaney and Bronson were not in it. I wept. Last year MGM announced BIG HOUSE U.S.A. would be available on their made-to-order DVD-R ‘On Demand’ Classics Collection series. I bought it and, though it’s a bare bones disc with no extras, it’s a sharp transfer with strong contrasts and minimal grain. It’s great to have BIG HOUSE U.S.A., one of my favorite movies, finally in my collection. Clink - definition of clink by The Free Dictionary Clink - definition of clink by The Free Dictionary (klĭngk) intr. & tr.v.

clinked, clink·ing, clinks To make or cause to make a light, sharp ringing sound: clinked their wineglasses together in a toast. n. A light, sharp ringing sound, as of glass or metal. [Middle English clinken, probably from Middle Dutch klinken, of imitative origin.] clink 2 A prison or a prison cell; a jail: spent the night in the clink. [After Clink, a district of London famous for its prison.] clink to make or cause to make a light and sharply ringing sound n 1. a light and sharply ringing sound 2. (Tools) Brit a pointed steel tool used for breaking up the surface of a road before it is repaired [C14: perhaps from Middle Dutch klinken; related to Old Low German chlanch, German Klang sound] clink a slang word for prison [C16: after Clink, name of a prison in Southwark, London] clink1 (klɪŋk) v.i., v.t. 1. to make or cause to make a light, sharp, ringing sound: The coins clinked together. n.

[1275–1325; Middle English, perhaps < Middle Dutch clinken to ring] clink2 [1505–15; after Clink a prison in Southwark, London, perhaps < Dutch klink door latch] clink I will have been clinking you will have been clinking he/she/it will have been clinking we will have been clinking you will have been clinking they will have been clinking Past Perfect Continuous sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them" 2.

clink - a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) bastille - a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) correctional institution - a penal institution maintained by the government holding cell - a jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial hoosegow , hoosgow - slang for a jail house of correction - (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences lockup - jail in a local police station workhouse - a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months Verb clink - make a high sound typical of glass; "champagne glasses clinked to make a toast" sound - cause to sound; "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note" 2. sound , go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" clink to clink glasses with sb → entrechocar la copa con algn C.

VI [coins] → tintinear 2 [klɪŋk] N (= jail) → trena f clink clink 1 vt → klirren lassen ; (= jingle) → klimpern mit; she clinked a coin against the window → sie schlug mit einer Münze gegen die Scheibe , dass es klirrte ; to clink glasses with somebody → mit jdm anstoßen vi → klirren ; (= jingle) → klimpern ; the spoon clinked against the glass → der Löffel stieß klirrend an das Glas n no pl → Klirren nt, → Klimpern nt; the clink of glasses as they drank to his health → das Klingen der Gläser , als auf sein Wohl getrunken wurde clink n (inf: = prison) → Knast m (inf); in clink → im Knast clink clink (kliŋk) noun a ringing sound. the clink of coins.

gerinkel, geklingel رَنين، طَنين звънтене tinido cinkání das Klimpern klinken; klirren κουδούνισμα tintineo kõlin صدای جلینگ جلینگ kilahdus tintement נקישה टन-टन की आवाज zveket, zveckanje csörgés dentingan hringl, glamur tintinnio チリンと鳴る音 (동전 등이 부딪쳐 나는) 쨍그랑 소리 skambėjimas, dzingsėjimas šķindoņa bunyi kelenting gerinkel klirr , skrangling brzęk شرنګى، شرنګا: بندى خانه (دبندى خانې كوټه) tinido clinchet звон cinknutie žvenket zveket klirr, klingande, skrammel เกิดเสียงดังกริ๊ง şıngırtı 叮噹聲 дзенькіт جھنکار tiếng leng

 keng 丁当声 verb to (cause to) make such a sound.

They clinked their glasses together.

klink يَدُق كأْسا بِكَأْسٍ звънтя tinir přiťuknout si; cinknout klirren lassen klinke med; klirre; skåle med τσουγκρίζω , κουδουνίζω tintinear kõlistama با صدای جینگ به هم خوردن kilauttaa faire tinter לְהַקִיש टन-टन आवाज करना zveketati, zveckati csörget mendentingkan hringla, glamra far tintinnare チリンと鳴らす 쨍그랑 소리를 내다 skambėti, dzingsėti, su(si)daužti šķindēt berkelenting klinken klirre, skrangle; skåle brzęknąć, pobrzękiwać شرنګى، شرنګا: بندى خانه (دبندى خانې كوټه tinir a ciocni (cu zgomot) звенеть

 ; чокаться štrngnúť, cinknúť žvenketati zveckati klirra, klinga, pingla, skramla ทำให้เกิดเสียงดังกริ๊ง şıngırda(t)mak (使)叮噹作響 дзинчати; цокатися جھنکار پیدا کرنا tạo ra tiếng leng keng 丁当作响 Pokey | Definition of Pokey by Merriam-Webster bastille , big house [slang], bridewell , brig , calaboose , can , clink [slang], cooler , coop , guardroom , hock , hold , hoosegow , jailhouse , joint [slang], jug , lockup , nick [British slang], pen , penitentiary , jail [slang], prison , quod [British slang], slam , slammer , stir [slang], stockade , tolbooth [Scottish] Related Words Prison Terms | Wordnik by Angela Tung Prison Terms The pokey .

The slammer . The clink . How many different ways are there to say prison, and where do these words come from? We decided to find out. Our latest obsession isn’t completely arbitrary. Forty-nine years ago today, Alcatraz closed as a federal penitentiary. Also called the Rock , the island was named for bird that roosted there, the pelican, which in Spanish is, you guessed it, alcatraz . From the other side of the country came the expression up the river , which, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary , originally referred to the Hudson River and Sing Sing , a maximum security prison in Ossining, New York. Sing Sing was the original name of Ossining, and was derived from the name of the Native American tribe, the Sint Sinck, who sold the area to one Frederick Philipse . Some prisons were so famous (or in some cases, infamous), their names became common words.

The stir in stir-crazy (“distraught or restless from long confinement in or as if in prison”) is a slang term for prison, and comes from Start Newgate , “a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780.” Meanwhile, Newgate became a verb meaning “to imprison.” Another synonym for prison, bocardo , originally referred to Bocardo Prison in Oxford, England. Bastille , which comes from an Old French word meaning “fortress, tower, fortified, building,” was “built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries,” and now refers to “a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner).” But how does one get to prison? You could take a paddy wagon , which may come from Paddy , which originated from “the pet form of the common Irish proper name Patrick (Ir. Padraig),” and became a disparaging term for someone of Irish descent. Paddy wagon was so-called perhaps “because many police officers were Irish” at the time (around 1930).

The paddy wagon is also known as a meat wagon , cattle car , or Black Maria . According to World Wide Words , Black Maria is American in origin, though its exact etymology is unclear.

The name may come from a Boston story “about Maria Lee, a large black woman who kept a boarding house in the 1820s with such severity that she became more feared than the police, who called on her to help them catch and restrain criminals,” or from the name of a “famous black racehorse of the period, also named Black Maria.” Before heading to the big house , prisoners may first be held in a sponging-house , “a victualing-house or tavern where persons arrested for debt were kept by a bailiff for twenty-four hours before being lodged in prison, in order that their friends might have an opportunity of settling the debt.” The sponging-house was so-named “from the extortionate charges made upon prisoners for their accommodation therein,” with sponge meaning “to drain; harass by extortion; squeeze.” A bridewell was “a house of correction for the confinement of vagrants and disorderly persons,” and became a name “generally given to a prison in connection with a police-station, for the temporary detention of those who have been arrested by the police.” According to the Virtual Linguist , the term bridewell “comes from an old area of London near modern-day Fleet Street, where there

 was a well dedicated to St Bride ,” a patron saint of Ireland, and “is still used by some police forces in the UK, usually as the name of a police station, or of a custody suite.” A spinning house was “ a house of correction , so-called because women of loose character were obliged to spin or to beat hemp as punishment.” Spinster , which originally referred to any person, man or woman, whose occupation was spinning, also meant “a woman of an evil life or character: so called from being forced to spin in the house of correction.” The word is now commonly known as “a woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying.” A rogue-house is a house for rogues ; a lobspound is a pound for lobs or louts , and was “often applied to the juvenile prison made for a child between the feet of a grown-up person.” Another prison term, hoosegow , was coined in 1911 in the western U.S.

probably as a mispronunciation of the Mexican Spanish juzgao, “tribunal, court.” An older term, calaboose ( 1792 ), is from the Louisiana French calabouse, which comes from the Spanish calabozo, “dungeon.” A panopticon was a prison proposed by Jeremy Bentham , “so arranged that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times without being seen by them.” On a smaller scale is the Judas , “a small opening in the door or wall of a cell to enable the guards to watch the prisoners.” Also called a judas-hole .

Question: What is also known as the clink, the big house, or the pokey?
Answer: Jail