wingery n. a restaurant that specializes in serving spicy hot chicken wings. Editorial Note: Thanks to Charles Doyle for bringing this term to our attention. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
wingery n. a restaurant that specializes in serving spicy hot chicken wings. Editorial Note: Thanks to Charles Doyle for bringing this term to our attention. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Brian from Lafayette, Indiana, wonders why chicken is abbreviated CHX in the restaurant industry. Using X as a substitute or shortener has a long history. Medieval scribes sometimes drew a line through the final stroke of an abbreviated word. This...
The Texas Folklore Society’s book The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore, 1916-1954 (Bookshop|Amazon) offers some wonderful browsing, including this saying to describe an environment that’s too loud: You can’t hear your ears in this place! This is part...