[Ads-l] squatchee

James Eric Lawson jel at NVENTURE.COM
Wed Feb 17 00:37:41 UTC 2021


'Squatcho': apparently introduced and perhaps coined by Rich Hall. In
his 1984 _Sniglets (snig'lit): any word that doesn't appear in the
dictionary, but should_.

https://archive.org/details/snigletssniglita00hall/page/76/mode/2up

On 2/16/21 4:10 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Quora.com:
> 
> Why do most baseball type caps have a button on the top, what purpose does
> it serve? That button actually has a name: It’s called a “squatchee” or
> “squatcho"....
> 
> JL
> 

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