Welcome to another newsletter from A Way with Words. Over the weekend we talked more about political language, "hair of the dog," "a fish rots from the head down," and "pareidolia." We also posted another language...
phlashing n.— «You don’t have to take an ax to a piece of hardware to perform a so-called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS) attack. A researcher this week will demonstrate a PDOS attack that can take place remotely. A PDOS attack damages...
hardware n.—Gloss: a trophy, plaque, or other recognition of winning. «We’ve had such a good season and we’ve got some good, what coach likes to call, “hardware,” and bringing that home is really fun.» —“Gettysburg girls...
floater n.— «Verts doesn’t consider himself a doctor, anyway. He’s a horse floater, one who “floats,” or files down, teeth. Some say floaters got their name from their partiality to drifting about the country. Others...
float v.— «Verts doesn’t consider himself a doctor, anyway. He’s a horse floater, one who “floats,” or files down, teeth. Some say floaters got their name from their partiality to drifting about the country. Others think...
head-knocker n.— «The man who arranged Moore’s murder was most probably Joseph Neville Cox, the secretary of the Orlando chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, who organized a handful of Klan “head-knockers,” as they were called...