As an Englishman I never understood the word  Yippee-ki-yay,  as in 'Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker'. As Quentin Tarantino so wistfull...

I'm flummoxed. Yesterday I mentioned the lovely word snollygoster meaning  a dishonest politician . The OED cites this quotation from ...

Last night, as the clock struck twelve, I was busily proof-reading when a chap asked me what  exactly a Grand Panjandrum is. There was an...

Today I heard two of my colleagues use the phrase “bish bash bosh”, to demonstrate the ease and efficiency of something they had accomplishe...