Speaking of the more recent past: When you played hide-and-seek as a child, did you yell “Ollie, Ollie Oxen Free”? Or “Ally Ally in Free”? Or maybe “Ally Ally Ump Free”? “Ole Ole Olsen Free”? Or...
yummy mummy n.—Gloss: an attractive older woman. «“Please note not all our Aga owners are middle-aged women,” he says, indicating to some of the people at the party who are neatly dressed middle-aged men and a group of what are...
magical black man n.— «“Angel Levine” introduces us to another flying Jew, without feathers, this time simply black, a magical black man, Alexander Levine, by name, but by narrational locution, “the Negro.”…Where...
jillpoke n.— «Case in point: Jillpoke. The word belongs to the vernacular of woodsmen in the western United States, where it is applied to any outsized sucker that has grown up into the branches of the tree. A jillpoke is an encumbrance...
skinwalker n.— «Skinwalkers—it should be noted—is a word rooted in native and Norse legends. The word means a person with supernatural abilities, such as the power to become a werewolf.» —“Skinwalkers in theatres July...
bullet sponge
n.— «Marines -> Bullet Sponges.» —“Re: Interservice derogatory nicknames” by Steve Sample Usenet: alt.folklore.military May 25, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)