bellagonna adj.— «We have talked to the bellagonna (which translates as non-Navajo) manager who says they’re still working towards a waiver to avoid changes.» —“Navajo culture is scorned by Hilton Hotels” by Shirley Rose...
Rupert n.— «Don’t the ranks refer to officers behind their backs as “Ruperts”?» —“‘I don’t treat Harry like dirt’” by Nigel Farndale in Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Telegraph (U.K.) Oct...
heroic dose n.— «One drop of it was fully as efficient as curiosity in killing a cat.…An early nineteenth century pharmacopoeia lists a tobacco enema. About the same time the surgeon and anatomist, Sir Ashley Cooper, recommended...
chicken-in-the-basket n.— «The Royal Festival Hall is under seige by Goths. Not the part-time, chicken-in-the-basket variety, but the real thing; all dog chains, whey faces, and PVC trousers—people who need to listen to Leonard Cohen...
nazz n.— «The Nazz was the kind of a cat that come on so cool and so groovy and so with-it that when he laid it down…WA-BOM!!» —“The Nazz” by Richard “Lord” Buckley His Royal Hipness Sept. 28...
Irish pennant n.— «The term “Irish pennant” derives from the Royal Navy during the time of sailing ships. It was a loose or untidy end of a line. In Navy and Marine Corps parlance today, an Irish pennant is a loose thread on a...