Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.
Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.
I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
(Samuel Beckett)
I don’t think I’ve come across that before, but I’d say it depends on what is meant:
There may well be some other ones, but I don’t know what they might be.
Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.
Swot is a venerable and frequently used word, derived from the word sweat. Neek is what’s current with my children’s generation (South London): it’s a portmanteau of nerd and geek, apparently. Spod may well be regionally and temporally specific, as it’s what I used to be called in SW England in the 1980s.
These kinds of insults definitely exist here in the UK too, e.g., swot, spod, as well as geek, neek, nerd, etc. I don’t think these are imported from the US, as they’ve been around for a long time. Perhaps a manifestation of anglo-saxon anti-intellectualism?
Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal updated to the 21st century.
Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.