linthead n.— «Almost always it features early on the fact that his mother’s family worked in Revolution Mill in Greensboro, that because of his grandmother’s asthma his family moved into the McAdoo Heights neighborhood and his mother...
A Texan says his grandmother used to refer to the thigh of a chicken as the “second joint.” Martha and Grant discuss whether it’s a regional term. By the way, if you want to know the French term Martha mentions that roughly...
hoss-pinch n.— «To those of you who do not know what a “hoss-pinch” is, it is when somebody older than your grandmother has been working for many years in the fields, has used a “rub-board” for years to wash clothes and has soft motherly...
dark house n.— «Some of my earliest outdoor memories where the times I spent seated next to my maternal grandmother in a tiny ice shanty situated on Black Lake near Onaway, Michigan. The interior of the structure was just large enough to...
1661 syndrome n.— «The 1661 syndrome—whereby a woman (and it almost always is a woman) looks like a bouncy-tressed, pert-bottomed teenager from behind and a grandmother from the front—has become a cultural joke.» —“Age-old...
nana technology n.— «Get used to “nana technology”—technology that your grandmother might use. That’s what Andrew Carle, assistant professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., likes to call the wave of technology...