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reesetee commented on the word twixt-hell-and-the-white-oak
Obsolete nickname for the chuck-will’s-widow, a type of nightjar.
December 7, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word twixt-hell-and-the-white-oak
This is the best ever.
December 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word twixt-hell-and-the-white-oak
Yep, I love this one. The only thing I can come up with for its origin is my theory that it's an approximation of the bird's call (which is also where it gets its current name).
December 9, 2007
bilby commented on the word twixt-hell-and-the-white-oak
I was walking through a park in 1989 and there was an odd noise coming from a stand of trees. At first I thought it went, "chicks are hell and they bite, okay?" But that couldn't have been right. I realised, as a bird flitted above me and shat on my wonderment, that it must have been a twixt-hell-and-the-white-oak.
December 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word twixt-hell-and-the-white-oak
Ah, but it couldn't have been, unless you were walking through a park in the middle of the night! These are nocturnal, these twixt(s)-hell(s)-and-the-white(s)-oak(s) are.
This is a time for Soundie.
December 9, 2007
bilby commented on the word twixt-hell-and-the-white-oak
*worried about who knows what I do in parks at night*
December 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word twixt-hell-and-the-white-oak
*decides not to ask bilby anything else*
December 10, 2007