2024-11-04
53 分钟You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I'm Grant Barrett.
And I'm Martha Barnett.
I'm always glad to learn a new word that I didn't know I needed.
And, Grant, I learned one from you the other day that I really appreciated.
Was it a four-letter word, a naughty word?
No, it wasn't one of those this time.
Oh, I think I know the one.
It was because a friend of ours had an accident.
Yeah, a friend of ours unfortunately got knocked over by a big dog at the dog park,
and you told me there's a word for that.
I had no idea.
Dog burg.
Dog burg.
Yeah, to get knocked over by an animal is to be dog burgged.
Apparently it comes from the name of Bill Goldberg,
a professional wrestler who had sort of a signature move where he would just do what they called a spear,
like just run at somebody and knock them over, I guess.
Yeah, so the word is DOG BERG after his last name.
And he's a massive man just built like a mountain and he kind of gets this look on his face.