When there’s no evening meal planned at home, what do you call that scramble to cobble together your own dinner? Some people apply acronyms like YOYO — “you’re on your own” — or CORN, for “Clean Out your Refrigerator...
Margaret from Dallas, Texas, asks about her family’s word cornswaggled, pronounced like cornswoggled, for feeling confused. It’s a rarer variant of hornswoggled or hornswaggled, a word that originally meant to cheat or deceive someone, or to get...