In parts of the United States where Pennsylvania German is spoken, the term schussel means “to wiggle” or “to fidget.” The German word schusselig means “hasty,” “clumsy,” or “sloppy,” and...
After our conversation about families’ nicknames for household appliances, Luke in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, tells the story of a gesture that evolved in his own family to indicate it’s snack time. This is part of a complete episode...
If you’re too tired to wiggle, you’re tired indeed. This expression goes back at least as far as the early 1900s. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Too Tired to Wiggle” Monty Belton writes, I used the phrase...
two eyes and a wiggle n.— «In an act of both optimism and desire, millions of shad fry—so young and tiny they are often referred to as “two eyes and a wiggle”—have been released upstream on many area waterways where dams are...