phenomenalia
n.— «What hath The Wiggles wrought? In the etymology of pop-culture phenomenalia, crystallized with the Aussie happy-feet band in the colored skivvies, born of the wistful singalongs in the original MM Club—M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E—and filtered through the vaguely unsettling plastic-skin colorations of “Heartbeeps” and the ambitiously camp, cheap cheerfulness of Sid and Marty Krofft, here we have the Doodlebops.» —“Doodlebops rock!” by Burl Burlingame Star-Bulletin (Honolulu, Hawaii) Sept. 26, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Mark in Bismarck, North Dakota, spent years as a sailor, and wonders about the term sea painter, meaning “a rope attached to a lifeboat.” Why painter? The word may derive from Middle French pendeur meaning “a kind of rope that...
A resident of Michigan’s scenic Beaver Island shares the term, boodling, which the locals use to denote the social activity of leisurely wandering the island, often with cold fermented beverages. There have been various proposed etymologies...