broken glass Republican n.— «Polls show New York voters are not incensed by the thought of Clinton running for president two years into a second Senate term, but the notion still enrages so-called “broken glass” Republicans...
dog collar match n.— «The first match was Mini Abismo Negro vs. Mascarita Sagrada, who ROOLS, so I thought I might watch it. Then I saw that is was a bull terrier match, which apparently is the Spanish term for dog collar match...
bull terrier match n.— «The first match was Mini Abismo Negro vs. Mascarita Sagrada, who ROOLS, so I thought I might watch it. Then I saw that is was a bull terrier match, which apparently is the Spanish term for dog collar match...
bedhead n.— «She looked remarkably corporate in her blue sleeveless dress, but she still had bedhead, her blonde hair going every which way. Mary thought it might be intentional, because nobody but her actually parted their hair anymore...
pedgilling n.— «Even so, when [D.H. Lawrence] writes that “the thought of you pedgilling away at the novel frets me” (pedgilling, a nice coinage, a cross between pencilling and abridging), the fret isn’t what Garnett will do...
anthropodenial n.— «The ancients apparently never gave much thought to this practice, the opposite of anthropomorphism, and so we lack a word for it. I will call it anthropodenial: a blindness to the humanlike characteristics of other...