Fun_People Archive
20 Oct
A Word A Day--thank-you-ma'am

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 18:31:53 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: A Word A Day--thank-you-ma'am

Forwarded-by: Wordsmith <wsmith@wordsmith.org>

thank-you-ma'am n [prob. fr. its causing a nodding of the head] (1849):
a bump or depression in a road; esp: a ridge or hollow made across a
road on a hillside to cause water to run off

© 1995 Peter Langston