catty-wumper adj.— «Leaning against his 50-year-old pickup truck last week, Mr. Vorpahl explained some Bonac terms. If his chicken coop lets the raccoons in, something is out of whack, or “catty-wumper.” The pound trap is so named, he said, after...
ringman n. an auctioneer’s assistant. Editorial Note: OED has a sense of ringman ‘a sporting man; a bookmaker’ to which this could be related via an original shared meaning of ‘a person who occupies or attends an enclosed area.’ (source: Double...