blurple
adj.— «I am a size 22-24 found a 2-piece dress/jacket at Nordstrom. Periwinkle blurple.» —“Re: My mother is driving me Nuts!” Usenet: alt.wedding Aug. 3, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
blurple
adj.— «I am a size 22-24 found a 2-piece dress/jacket at Nordstrom. Periwinkle blurple.» —“Re: My mother is driving me Nuts!” Usenet: alt.wedding Aug. 3, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
A psychiatric home health worker is curious about the use of nuthouse to mean “a mental health facility.” This term goes back to the turn of the 20th century. The word nuts itself once had an extremely positive connotation, referring to...
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...