hokey Dinah
other.— «Hokey, Dinah! Did the kid spit out an impressive sampling of phrases, or what?» —“Courting: Sweet Business” by Lisa Welch Rigg Niagara Farmers’ Monthly (Smithville, Ontario) June, 2004. (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...
Rowan in Ottawa, Ontario, says her Irish mom used a puzzling word to indicate a sort of restless discontent not caused by anything in particular. It may be neamhchinnte, which means “uncertain” or “indecisive.” This is part...