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Originally Posted by pvande55
"pill" for an especially disagreeable person.
Interesting, I've also heard pill used for someone that was simply odd, unusual or a terrible cut up. I guess meaning pretty much anyone that's "hard to take" , for whatever reason.
Not all shopping centers are malls, but all malls are shopping centers.
For anyone who doesn't get it and needs a more detailed explanation.......
In the early days of shopping complexes located away from downtown areas they were all called "shopping centers". As they evolved to more elaborate complexes the word "mall" came more into common usage. Sometimes the word "mini-mall" is used to describe the smaller ones. They may also be known as "strip malls". Not many people say "shopping center" anymore.
"Novacaine" - brand name of an early injectable local anesthetic. (Generic name "procaine hydrochloride".) Even after other more efficient local anesthetics with other names came into existence, any local anesthetic was often still referred to as "Novacaine".
Last edited by Cunucu Beach; 09-06-2012 at 01:31 PM..
My grandfather called a zero and "aught" and when he came in out of the cold he would say "woosy".
If someone sneezed he would say "scat!" and he called anything he took for any kind of pain a "headache powder" of course that was most often a BC powder.
"truck farm" - don't know if small, commercial vegetable-growing farms are still called "truck farms" or if something else has replaced that term but that's what we called them several decades ago. I think they came to be called "truck farms" because much of their produce was trucked to local food outlets and sold locally.
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