Today I was reading a post White Lightning wrote about something called a cookie puss. After reading this term in context a couple of times , I had to google this "cookie puss" to find the lost meaning of the term.
As it turns out, this is a cookie puss:
What in God's name is that thing and why is it called a COOKIE PUSS? This cake/treat confection is sheer ugly and would scare me if I ever received one. I'm not a pervert, but a cake was not what came to mind when I imagined what it was.
On a sidenote, this reminds me of those times where somebody uses an everyday term and you forget what it means, so you go with what it sounds like. (cocker-spaniel, anyone?) This is usually a disaster for me because I either A) can't figure out what they're talking about so I make up some bs or I B) ask what they mean and they'll be like, "STYUUUPID Maddie, go fall in a ditch over and over again until you figure out what a 'cockpit' is. Impudent girl!"
For reals, Boo, there are some words / terms I can't figure out the origin of and I just get lost when confronted with them in civilized conversation. (snickerdoodle, Puss'n Boots, anthropomorphism... WHAT THE HELL YA TALKIN ABOUT?)
I think that for my sake, and for the sake of the children (they are our future), I think we should rid the English language of any/all phrases that kill my already sucky conversations.
Cookie puss.
