Word: crosspatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pursuing further your footnote relative to the bristle-thighed curlew [TIME, June 28], it might be well to note . . . that the red-eyed crosspatch is merely my husband the morning after the night before...
...ruffled spouse, normally a quiet and gentle bird, is the mate of the red-eyed crosspatch and is usually unruffled. "Ruffling" means a great clucking and fussing and gen eral emotional upset which leads to nothing much, usually, for the spouse or her mate...
...confused with the tufted dowager, red-eyed crosspatch, all-night thrasher, ruffled spouse, great stench, lesser stench, or double-breasted seersucker...
Gallup pollsters asked a moderately crosspatch-section of American wives: "What are the chief faults husbands have...
Lawyer Gandhi promptly recalled his past claims that only a free Indian people can be galvanized into action in a larger war for freedom. In his own crosspatch way he told off the Japanese: "Our offer to let the Allies retain troops in India," he explained in a manifesto, "is to prevent you from being misled into feeling that you have but to step into this country. If you cherish any such idea, we will not fail to resist you with all the might we can muster." But in the next breath he was threatening that "hidden discontent may burst...