Chesapeake Bay crabbing has a vocabulary as specialized as a waterman’s gear. Rob, a retired conservationist and biologist near Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coast, notes that a male blue crab is a jimmy, while a female may be a sook, silk...
A female sheep is an ewe, a goat is a nanny, but what’s a female kangaroo? A flyer. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Ewes, Nannies, and Flyers” Grant, I have some more names for adult animals. You know, a sheep is...
Does and bucks are female and male deer, respectively. But what do you call female and male gerbils. Why, they’re does and bucks, too. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Does and Bucks” We were talking earlier about...
The phrase “no bucks, no Buck Rogers,” made popular by the 1983 film The Right Stuff, has seen a renaissance in usage among pilots. That is, if you don’t pay them what they believe they’re worth, they’re not going to...
A Texas grandmother says she’s long been baffled about the origin of a counting rhyme that she learned from her grandmother. During the game, her grandmother bounced her on her knee, saying, “Malagee Buck, Malagee Buck, how many fingers...
deer condo n.— «Curtis had his tag filled so it was only Clay and I carrying guns. We have a nice, big “deer condo” as I like to call it, so all three of us were sitting in it. Clay and I had different goals in the size of...
