A patient husband ’twas, who bore
A yamnoy, huge and bulky;
It weighed a dozen pounds or more—
No wonder he was sulky.
And as he ran to catch the car,
More and still more disgusted,
His yamnoy fell—and, with the jar,
Two watermelons busted!
Yod, n. 1. A ban, or restriction; a rule forbidding pleasant things. 2. A place where one must conform to the proprieties.
Yod, v. To behave circumspectly, or with conventional deportment.
Yod´der-y, a. Stiff, proper, formal; respectable.
Yes, you have to mind your p’s and q’s in a Christian Endeavor yod, or in the house of your best girl. Why, in some places, there is even a yod on the tango! (See Ovotch.)
Don’t you love to get into a place where there’s a yod on smoking? A temperance yod is not so bad—except that you can never get good food where they sell soft drinks.
Remember that restaurant they started a couple of years ago where evening dress was required? That business-suit yod killed it.
Poor little slangy Lulu, with the henna hair! When she was introduced to Millionaire Willie’s mother, she had so many yods on her that she didn’t dare squeak!
Remember that low-necked yod your aunt used to have? Why, nowadays, she wears double-décolleté in a trolley-car. No, those sanctimonious old yoddery days of yore are well gone by. Your wife smokes cigarettes now—your daughter’s skirts are slit up to the knee. However, there’s still a yod on woman suffrage, and we may hold ’em down. (See Varm.)