Catchword: witches’ knickers

Filed under: English, Slang

Part of speech: n.pl.

Quotation: Alaskans call them “tundra ghosts” and “landfill snowbirds.” In China, they’re “white pollution.” South Africans have sarcastically dubbed them their “national flower.” Snagged in treetops in Ireland, they become “witches’ knickers.”

Article or Document Title:
“Blight of bags bringing bans”

Author:
Margie Wylie

Article, document, publication, web site:
Times-Picayune

Publishing location:
New Orleans, La.

Date of publication:
Oct. 21, 2004

Page number:
1

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