perp
n.— «This “Wyatt Perp” getup has him barking with a drawl.» —“‘Putting On The Dog’ No Longer Exclusively For Us Human Beings” by Franklin Johnson in Chicago Eagle-Gazette (Lancaster, Ohio) Mar. 10, 1959. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a word-pecker is “a person who trifles or plays with, or quibbles over, words.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Word-Peckers” I always love it when I’m looking through...
Brian from Mandan, North Dakota, is puzzling over one of her mother’s sayings. If someone left quickly or abruptly, she’d say that they took off like a ruptured duck. There’s a famous World War II-era military discharge emblem featuring an eagle...