swaybacked, slinky, a/the squeeze, pet ownership, prodded and gouged

Master of the squeeze. This week's KAL's Cartoon, March 12th 2016

the brown, the stuffing, a squeeze of orange

1776年5月15日倫敦的一場著名"社交宴"

Pet ownership in America has risen for decades. More than a third of homes have at least one dog, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association. But the popularity of four-legged friends has an icky cost: dogs squeeze out more than twice the waste of the average person, or around 275 pounds a year. With over 83m pooches roaming the country, that is a lot of poop http://econ.st/1EHKieV

A crap-shoot

DOGS, unlike people, are capable of pure love—at least according to Freud. As ever more Americans live alone, unconditional affection is in demand. Pet ownership...

ECON.ST

A host of wonderfully lumpy animals includes a swaybacked cow, a slinky cat, a perky horse and a perturbed elephant. Calder challenged himself by modeling in fast-drying plaster rather than wax; the pieces are all so emphatically squeezed, prodded and gouged that they seem to be nothing but surface, to have no interior volumes.

slinky

  音節

slink • y

発音

slíŋki

[形]（-i・er, -i・est）

1 こそこそした, 人目を忍ぶ.

2 〈婦人服が〉体の線をきれいに出す.

━━[名]((S-))((商標))スリンキー：段を降りるばねのおもちゃ.

slínk・i・ly

[副]

slínk・i・ness

[名]

swayback

[名]《獣病理》1 （特に馬の）脊柱(せきちゅう)湾曲.2 [U]（羊の）流行性運動失調症, よろめき病.━━[形]脊柱湾曲した(swaybacked).

gouge

Syllabification: (gouge)

Pronunciation: /gouj/

Translate gouge | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• 1a chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery.

• 2an indentation or groove made by gouging.

verb

[with object]

• 1make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as if with a gouge:the channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water
• make a rough hole or indentation in (a surface), especially so as to mar or disfigure it:he had wielded the blade inexpertly, gouging the grass in several places
• (gouge something out) cut or force something out roughly or brutally:one of his eyes had been gouged out

• 2North American informal overcharge; swindle:the airline ends up gouging the very passengers it is supposed to assist

Derivatives

gouger

noun

Origin:

late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin gubia, gulbia, perhaps of Celtic origin; compare with Old Irish gulba 'beak' and Welsh gylf 'beak, pointed instrument'