Wednesday Word: Jezail

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Jezails - noun.

Here's a perfectly cromulent word to zoom ahead on Scrabble or Words With Friends. A jezail or jezzail is a Pashtun word and name for a handmade, long-barrelled gun once popular with Pashtun tribes.

By Lieutenant James Rattray - The British Library, Public Domain, Link

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Sherlock Holmes fans (by way of the original Doyle canon) will know that you’re not asspulling the word; Dr. Watson’s war wound(s?*) came from a Jezail bullet.

*Variously described as in the leg or shoulder; maybe the Pashtun sniper caught Watson stooping to tie his bootlaces? There’s a possible re-enactment for some successor to Mythbusters.