Word: crosspatch
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...confused with the tufted dowager, red-eyed crosspatch, all-night thrasher, ruffled spouse, great stench, lesser stench, or double-breasted seersucker...
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...