bent
n.— «Last year I converted from a road bike (fondly called a “wedgie”) to a recumbent (proudly called a “bent”).» —“The view from a different angle” by Sharon Tummins Daily News (Galveston County, Texas) July 17, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Aubrey in Waco, Texas, says her mother used to warn the kids against contracting honkus of the bonkus, a fanciful name for a contagious disease. This colloquial term probably comes from the words bonk and konk, meaning “to hit” or...