Grody was initially spelled groaty, in the mid-1960s, and it’s basically used to describe something that’s slovenly, dirty, or super gross. If something is really and truly terrible, Valley girls ...

Slang says a lot about its time, and some of the funniest phrases from decades past are too good to stay buried. These old-school slangs once filled conversations and TV scripts and were as popular as ...

Slang lexicographer Jonathon Green's massive, three-volume Dictionary of Slang is the most authoritative work on the back roads and byways of the English language. His database of slang contains about ...

Thanksgiving is a time for turkey and tradition. Why not bring back some of these lost linguistic traditions? Here are some charming old dialect terms for turkey parts and some of their trimmings. An ...