brown elf
n.— «Mr. Dotson said that in their familiar brown uniforms, UPS carriers are often known as the Brown Elves. “You get a lot of faces at the door,” he said. “And then you get a bunch of kids screaming, ‘He’s here, he’s here.’”» —“Shippers play Santa’s helper: Services face crunch as holiday approaches” by Kate House-Layton in Dover, Delaware Newszap.com Dec. 11, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Paul in Batavia, New York, recommends The Door-to-Door Bookstore (Bookshop|Amazon), a novel by Carston Henn, translated from German by Melody Shaw, which includes a wonderful description of a book with a perfect final paragraph that you nevertheless...
Our conversation about words that are simply fun to say (such as oligopoly, or “domination of a market by just a few producers”) reminded a listener in Jackson, Tennessee, of a scene from a 1955 movie The Glass Slipper. A woman says she...