guru
n.— «In Brampton’s Springdale neighbourhood, turbaned Sikh youth recently arrived from India are commonly called “guru” and other derogatory terms by their “coconut” second-generation Punjabi-Canadian peers.» —“The feud and the firebomb” by San Grewal Toronto Star (Canada) May 22, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Miley in The Dalles, Oregon, asks about going gunny bags meaning to “break down” or “go haywire.” Her mother uses this expression, but has no idea where she picked it up. The term gunny sack, referring to a bag made of coarse material such as jute...
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks (Bookshop|Amazon) is about the foodways and folkways passed down through five generations of a Black Appalachian family. The book, by novelist and...