doona day
n.— «After a heavy night out, or if you just can’t face getting out of bed, you would be allowed to call in to say you were taking a Doona Day.» —“Doona Day, the official ‘sickie’” by David Wilkes Courier Mail (Queensland, Australia) Jan. 9, 2001. (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...
Cat hair may be something you brush off, but cat hair is also a slang term that means “money.” In the same way, cat beer isn’t alcoholic — some people use cat beer as a joking term for “milk.” And imagine walking on a...