bellagonna
adj.— «We have talked to the bellagonna (which translates as non-Navajo) manager who says they’re still working towards a waiver to avoid changes.» —“Navajo culture is scorned by Hilton Hotels” by Shirley Rose Higgins Royal Gazette (Hamilton, Bermuda) Mar. 31, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
She sells seashells by the seashore. Who is the she in this tongue twister? Some claim it’s the young Mary Anning, who went on to become a famous 19th-century British paleontologist. Dubious perhaps, but the story of her rise from seaside...
A restaurant manager in Kokomo, Indiana, had an employee who failed to show up for work. This left him wondering about the phrase left in the lurch. It probably derives from an old game similar to backgammon called lourche, the object of which is to...