sky-busting
v.— «It was in sharp contrast to the sky-busting that went on yesterday, when geese trying to get to the decoys were scared repeatedly by out-of-range shots.» —“Wood, Field and Stream” by John W. Randolph in Belhaven, North Carolina New York Times Nov. 21, 1958. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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