WORD WIZARDRY

GUESS THE DEFINITION: Quocker-wodger (1859)

A) A youth between boy and man.

B) A wooden toy figure.

C) A scarecrow.

Answer below

PHRASE EXPLAINED

To curry favour — to ingratiate oneself with someone. from old french, ‘curry’, to comb a horse and ‘fauvel’, a cunning nag in a poem. The idea being horses are susceptible to flattery, figuratively stroking.

Guess The Definition answer: B.