A bartender wonders about the origin of the term jockey box. In his world, a jockey box is a metal container for ice. However, in some parts of the western U.S., a jockey box is the glove compartment of a car, and much earlier, the term referred to...
More and more college students are getting pregnant with burrito babies. Grant explains that that this slang term simply means that someone’s stomach is full from a hefty meal, which is also known as a food baby. This is part of a complete...
Oh, that gives me agita! A Connecticut native says her Midwestern colleagues office were flabbergasted to encounter this expression, which she’s known all her life. Grant and Martha discuss this word for “upset” and its likely...
The word borborygmic means “pertaining to rumblings in one’s tummy or intestines.” It derives from borborygmus (“bor-buh-RIG-muss”), a term for intestinal rumbling and a vivid example of onomatopoeia. Its bubbly B sounds make borborygmic especially...
gold-beater’s skin n.— «As a conservator, if we saw a tear like this, we’d look to parchment repair, a very similar organic material.…They use something called gold-beater’s skin—the lining of a cow’s stomach—very, very thin...
tumpsy n. a woman’s genitals. Editorial Note: An unrelated “tumsy” is often used as a childish nickname for the stomach. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
