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Nature's ultimate open-plan office, where everyone smells and nobody knocks.
means The enclosed area of a farm, usually surrounded by barns and outbuildings, where livestock and poultry live and work gets done.
from A straightforward compound — 'farm' (from Old French 'ferme,' tied to a fixed rent or lease of land, ultimately from Latin 'firmare,' to make firm or fix) plus 'yard' (Old English 'geard,' an enclosed space, related to 'garden'). Nothing hidden here: it names exactly what it is, the fenced ground around the farmhouse where animals gather.
- origin
- enclosed space beside a farmhouse, not the fields
- soundtrack
- roosters lie about sunrise, crow anytime
- economics
- birthplace of pecking order, literally
- smell
- ammonia and hay, free of charge