Betsy in Murray, Kentucky, used Quit your mulligrubbing during a card game, meaning quit complaining or bellyaching. Mulligrub is an old one: by the 1500s it could mean a gloomy mood, while to have the mulligrubs could refer to a stomachache or...
A Connecticut cop says his dad, a retired professor of English and comparative literature at Yale, has been reading his son’s police reports. They disagree about whether complainant is a legitimate word, or whether it should be complainer...