confuzzle v.— «George Farson, who managed the Eastern League Holyoke Millers baseball team in 1978, invented a word one day. He said his team was “confuzzling.” That’s confusing and puzzling, with a dash of good ol’ boy mixed...
shanks n.pl.— «Wiley’s golf game did end up a victim of “the shanks” as he called it, falling to 19-year old Eastern Michigan golfer Sean Behnke 2 & 1 in the first round.» —“Ithaca’s Duckworth advances to...
demoflush n.— «And as for the “demoflush” figures for summer’s traditional last weekend, they weren’t available today: Like workers across the county, the man who computes the numbers and employes of the sanitation commission...
punkin lily
n.— «Yoo-hoo in there, you Eastern punkin lilies!…This here’s rough country. Better skedaddle back where you came from.» —by John Jakes The Americans Oct. 15, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
punkin-lily n.— «Some of those Eastern punkin-lilies now, those goody-goody fellows, if they’d ever get throwed off, you’d never hear the last of it. He didn’t care a bit. If he got throwed off, he’d get right on again.» —“Diversions...
hillbilly n.— «While it’s still a member of the cottontail family, it is huge compared to the Eastern cottontail, commonly called a “hillbilly” by rabbit hunters.» —“Cane cutters challenge for beagles” by David...