Morgan from Los Angeles, California, has always used dingy (pronounced with a hard G, like dinghy) to describe that woozy, muddle-headed feeling that comes with being sick, a sense she picked up from her mother. Standard dictionaries offer entries...
You walk into a used bookstore, or pull down an old volume at the library, and there it is: The smell of old books. If you detect notes of vanilla in that intoxicating scent, there’s a reason. Also, why some people think the word awesome is...
“Grandpa, what’s that?” A caller says that when she asked her grandfather one too many questions, he’d give her the fanciful answer, “That’s a dingbat off of a wiffem dilly that you grind smoke with.” It’s one of several things parents say to...
gaunch n.— «“Didja see the way I incapacitated him with my monkish gaunch pull?” cried Dingbat excitedly. There was a pause. “Uh, Dingbat, he’s not wearing a gaunch.”» —“Humorous Story (Part Two)” by Michael McAleese in Canada Usenet: rec.games...
