The condition of a filthy person when self-conscious.
I had imagined this to be an Americanism, but I was wrong. The oldest sense (1693) referred to watery. "Newfangled" sense of vacillating evidently was recorded in 1873. It was part of my parent's vocabulary.
I'm sure I came across this one in the Charlie Brown (Peanuts) cartoons.
just taught this to my students today. they got a good chuckle out of it.
The condition of a filthy person when self-conscious.
I had imagined this to be an Americanism, but I was wrong. The oldest sense (1693) referred to watery. "Newfangled" sense of vacillating evidently was recorded in 1873. It was part of my parent's vocabulary.
I'm sure I came across this one in the Charlie Brown (Peanuts) cartoons.
just taught this to my students today. they got a good chuckle out of it.