Put on the Dog (Rebroadcast) - 27 March 2023
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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The History of Cowbelli Mud
Cowbelli is a term for soft river mud and cowbellis are the rough work shoes that you use to work in. I was astonished when you said that. That was a resurgence certainly in the use, but it's been used repeatedly over the centuries without much gap in history. Oh, interesting. Why do they call the shoes that? I can kind of get the river mud, maybe the texture or even color of a cowbelli.
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