Author's posts
Apr 25
Forslug
v., To lose or destroy through idleness or sloth. “He forslugged his once profitable farm away.”
Apr 23
Weepy
n., A romantic and sentimental film or book. “Who’s Nicholas Sparks?” “Oh, you know, that guy that writes all those weepies.”
Apr 21
Quotable: Nicholas Day
“We know the fat content of elephant seal milk, for example. (It’s basically fatty fat with fat sauce.)” –from an article on Slate.com on the history of wet-nursing.
Apr 16
The Hunter
My daughter’s cat, Mr. Pucko, likes to kill things. He was so adorable when he killed his first bird that we wanted to commemorate it, so we made a little bird grave with a little bird tombstone. It seemed pretty funny at the time. Over the next couple of weeks he would bring back more …
Apr 14
Beats me
If you call someone because you require assistance with something, they may need some information from you. If your response to said inquiry is, ‘beats me,’ that is very rude–you should not be surprised if they in turn are rude to you–or if they do in fact beat you–because you deserve it. You wouldn’t accept such …
Apr 12
Chreaster
n., one who attends church only on Christmas and Easter, or adj., ‘Chreaster dad,’ via Wes Molebash‘s Insert [IMG].
Apr 10
Bonnet Ripper
n., a romantic novel set in Amish country. The phrase is a play on the term ‘bodice ripper,’ which refers to a typical romance novel. Unlike most romance novels, known for their sexual content, bonnet rippers are entirely chaste–though they may contain as much as a kiss or two. Credit for coining the term goes to …
Apr 05
putten
I have heard this word a couple of times this week: putten. As in, “I called earlier and you had putten a ticket in for my computer.” Merriam-Webster defines it as “dialectal past tense of put.” Putten.
