Our Quiz Guy Greg Pliska has a game of cryptic crossword clues called Double Definition. For example, if the clue is “trim a tree,” the answer is “spruce.” Or try this one: “crazy flying mammals.” Did you come up with “bats”? This is part of a...
Grant and Martha talk more about the challenges dictionary editors face when trying to define numbers and colors. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Defining Numbers and Colors” You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Martha...
cherry-stemming v.— «Senator McClure.…We have some that were used since the days of the covered wagon out there that are still used by ranchers in the area and have been ever since they had wheeled vehicles.…Yet the BLM says they’re not roads—that...
revolving s.o.b n.— «Some people who had been my good friends even started calling me a revolving s.o.b. A revolving s.o.b, according to the late Iron Pants Johnson, is a man who’s an s.o.b. any way you look at him.» —by Harry Allen Smith Life in a...