Clodhoppers fits Amber’s 1990s platform shoes all too well: the word first meant a rustic or rube, the sort of person imagined as literally hopping over clods of earth while working the land. That insulting sense shows up in old newspapers as far...
Annie in Bend, Oregon, says that while living on a narrowboat in England several years ago, she encountered some intriguing slang: clever clogs, a slightly derogatory term for someone who’s a bit too smart for their own good, and pop your...