spokes-weasel
n.— «With the spokes-weasel of the youth chillin’ with the body electric, the future—or at least the future of comedy—is in fully buff hands.» —“Jive Talk: How To Be Pauly-Tically Correct” by Michael Tisserand New Orleans Times-Picayune (La.) July 11, 1992. (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...
There was a time when William Shakespeare was just another little seven-year-old in school. Classes in his day were demanding — and all in Latin. A new book argues that this rigorous curriculum actually nurtured the creativity that later flourished...