What’s the best way for someone busy to learn lots of new words quickly for a test like the GRE? Looking up their origins can help. Or, record yourself reading the words and definitions and play them back while you’re doing other chores. • Book...
If someone’s naked as a needle, just how naked are they? Why “needle”? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Naked as a Needle” Hi, you have A Way with Words. Hi there. This is Gwen Goodner from San Diego. Hi, Gwen. Well, hello, Gwen...
short-kiting n.— «Naked short sellers do not have to borrow the stock. Thanks to smart lobbying by certain hedge funds, the rules have been subtly bent to say that “a broker dealer must have reasonable grounds to believe that the security can be...
tumpsy n.— «Most men have seen Paris Hilton’s bare tumpsy more often than they’ve seen their own reflection.» —“Paris Hilton Sues The Millionth Website To Show Her Naked” by Stuart Heritage Hecklerspray Jan. 30, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued...
guap
n.— «Workin 9 to 5, punchin the clock/It’s all good/It don’t matter how you get that guap/It’s all good/It’s all good.» —“All Good” by Lil’ Kim The Naked Truth Sept. 27, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
naked road n.— «“Naked road” schemes, where streets have no signs, traffic lights or road markings or kerbs, would be welcomed by two in five of those surveyed.» —“Signs point to confusion” The Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United...