The pontifical doctor was likely to be named, in her pungent idiom, a pusgut, and the talkative doctor, with his fluent bedside manner, was nothing more than a whoop in a whirlwind.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album
The pontifical doctor was likely to be named, in her pungent idiom, a pusgut, and the talkative doctor, with his fluent bedside manner, was nothing more than a whoop in a whirlwind.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album