Martha muses about the language of falconry, and in the process, reveals the origins of several words and phrases in one fell swoop.
Pat, a fisherman in San Diego, hears mariners use snotty weather for rough offshore conditions, such as large swells, whitecaps, and wind above 10 or 15 knots. The phrase does not seem to mean cold weather that brings sniffles. Examples go back at...
loot in the boot n.— «My shape is that of a slightly distorted heavy pear: slender, Chabella-like shoulders and a gently rising collarbone cast lines that soften and swell past a high waist to what Amy and I refer to as “loot in the...
swellbow n. a swollen elbow. Etymological Note: swell + elbow (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)