hocker n.— «“Hocker” has since seeped into our lingo. The catch phrase has come to connote the student in the know, who rubs elbows with the higher-ups at Yeshiva, often organizing Yeshiva events and programs. The proverbial hocker...
bakkie
n.— «Eventually, along came a “bakkie”—a small farm van—and the driver took me to near Sterkspruit.» —“A Walk to Freedom” New York Times Jan. 8, 1978. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Urning n.— «Karl Ulrichs was a civil servant in the small city-state of Hanover…As early as 1862 he had coined the word “Urning” to describe a male sexually attracted to other males, which he believed derived from a...
cookie n.— «The effect he explains, though is what we would refer to as “modeling” the light, which involves taking it away in certain spots to create shadows and add mystery. one way to achieve this effect, and what I think...
zeitgeber n.— «All companies exist in a cacophony of competing time rhythms, relentlessly drummed out by, among others, suppliers, clients, and competitors…These “external pacers” are known among academics as...
strawberry n.— «Sounding like Sybil, she says has a lot of “different characters who live within” her. “The most sexual [and] wildest” she’s nicknamed “Strawberry,” the street term for a prostitute who...