A Texas caller says her West Virginia-born mother uses the word hornicaboogery to mean “germs” or “the creeping crud.” Among the many such joking names for imaginary illnesses are gollywobbles, collywobbles, carlymarbles...
Birdie means to drink from someone else’s bottle or glass without letting your lips touch it, as in “I’ll birdie it.” The same maneuver is also called waterfalling, because the drink is poured through the air into your mouth. Other reported names...
germ n.— «Lou, who was attending his fourth Grammy Awards ceremony, didn’t want to be a “germ”—a Nashville term for “someone who pushes themselves on you.”» —“Area natives ‘grateful’ for Grammy experience” by Russell...