funky "old, musty," in reference to cheeses, then "repulsive," from funk ["bad smell," 1620s, from dialectal Fr. funkière "smoke"]. It began to develop an approving sense in jazz slang c.1900, …

Oct 7, 2012 · You are right. I probably choose your answer as the right one. But I guess I am going to leave this open for a while in case someone offers a creative and funny one. I once …

Feb 8, 2011 · Nobody really knows. There's no agreed derivation of the expression 'hunky-dory'. It is American and the earliest example of it in print that I have found is from a collection of US …

This question ought to be reopened, because the current answers are basically wrong. Whether or not other usage in youth culture pre-dates it, sick became slang for pretty much the …

Here is the entry for all get-out in Harold Wentworth, American Dialect Dictionary (1944):. all get-out. 1. To an extreme degree; —used with like or as.

Jun 22, 2017 · In the etymology age where every possible expression seems to have been run down to its true source, 'Liar, liar, Pants on fire' stands apart because I just googled it and …

Aug 31, 2014 · The earliest bad-ass. According the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1994), the word bad-ass is attested first as an adjective (1955), then as a …

Jan 4, 2016 · The funky gibbon. The two long 'o's in 'who' and 'you' are separated by a single short word also beginning with 'o'. Moreover, there are no hard consonants or sibilants to …

May 5, 2017 · pugh interjection \a strongly articulated p-sound sometimes trilled & sometimes with a vowel sound following; usually read as ˈpü\ Definition of pugh —used to express disgust or …

Jun 30, 2017 · A long time ago I read about this funny example posited by some relatively well-known author who spelled a word (I forget the word) in the most difficult way possible, but in a …