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bad bank

Posted by Grant Barrett on February 10, 2009 · Add Comment

Dust Bunnies and Ghost Turds

Posted by Grant Barrett on November 24, 2008 · Add Comment

Here's another newsletter from A Way with Words! Who calls baby platypuses "puggles"? Who calls a playground slide a "sliding pond"? Who calls dust bunnies "slut's wool"? You can find out on the brand-new episode we aired this past weekend: http://waywordradio.org/dust-bunnies-and-ghost-turds/ We've also posted the first in a series of minicasts talking about "word of [...]
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momtourage

Posted by Grant Barrett on August 26, 2008 · Add Comment

momtourage n.— «There’s a new word out there—momtourage—to describe that group of people who provide a mother with the support she needs to get the job done, especially as the new school year starts.» —“‘Momtourages’ lend a helping hand from baby-sitting to good old-fashioned advice” by Jane Clifford SignOnSanDiego.com Aug. 23, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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mudjacking

Posted by Grant Barrett on August 17, 2008 · 1 Comment

mudjacking n.— «The repairs to Sprigg Street have included removing fill material put in place to raise the roadbed following the Great Flood of 1993, material that had deteriorated badly, Gramling said. “It was just kind of a mud instead of soil,” Gramling said. “It looked like it was acting more like a sponge than a [...]
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air breather

Posted by Grant Barrett on July 14, 2008 · Add Comment

air breather n.— «Hundreds of American support personnel members on the ground in Colombia complemented these elite forces, in addition to a frenzied intelligence-gathering operation located in the United States Embassy here, drawing on intercepts of the rebel group’s radio systems, human intelligence, satellite imaging and “air breathers,” as piloted surveillance aircraft are called in military [...]
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