kitty litter
n.— «He enjoyed hitting his ball into the sandtrap or the kitty litter as he called it. He loved smacking a perfect chip through a flurry of sand.» —“Remembering the better times” by Kellie Dixon in Inverness St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Feb. 18, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The words tough, through, and dough all end in O-U-G-H. So why don’t they rhyme? A lively new book addresses the many quirks of English by explaining the history of words and phrases. And: have you ever been in a situation where a group makes...
A caller who grew up in Wisconsin says his spouse, who’s from Florida, teases him for such things as pronouncing bagel like “BEG-el” and dagger as “DEG-ger.” They’re just products of his isolect, the regional variants from his particular dialect of...