Those soft felt hats that folks like the man on the Quaker oatmeal box wear? They’re called wide-awakes. The etymology of this term is actually a pun—a reference to the fact that they’re made from smooth material that has no nap, a soft, fuzzy...
Infracaninophile means a lover or helper of the underdog, a word Kate in Evansville, Indiana, remembered from graduate school in social work. Its parts are nicely transparent: infra-, under, canino, dog, and -phile, lover. As far as anyone can tell...
In this week’s round of Slang This!, a member of the National Puzzlers League tries to separate the real slang terms from the fake ones. For example, which of following expressions is British rhyming slang for “wife”: boiler house...