masstique n.— «A big part of the appeal of either top is that you’re wearing something with a touch of luxury. That’s true with sparkle even if you haven’t spent much for it. It’s what Tom Julian, a New York-based fashion-trend analyst...
sacking out n.— «One of the main tools to getting the horse used to human touch is a technique called sacking-out. “It comes from an old term where they used to take a gunny-sack and rub it all over the horse,” he said...
wota n.— «My informant explained that wota—which is pronounced “oh-tah”—are an offshoot branch of Japan’s hobby-obsessed tribe of introverts known as otaku. While regular otaku seek out anime figurines and high-tech gizmos...
cerveza n.— «On my way to Ebebiyin, I was stopped several times by underpaid or rarely paid soldiers who demanded bribes—in their parlance cerveza, or beer money.» —“A Touch of Crude” by Peter Maass Mother...
chippy adj.— «Speaking of Tennessee, things have gotten a touch shall we say “chippy” between your team and the Tennessee Titans, with whom there’s been a little bit of a verbal jousting going on this week.» —“Del Rio...
toe-touch n. a trip taken by a reporter merely to acquire the proper dateline on a story, even though all reporting is done somewhere else or by someone else. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)