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What is the 1896 source for the origin of dyke? a source from 1896 lists dyke as slang for "the vulva " This same sentence is found on the Online Etymology Dictionary, Queer Cafe, Dictionary com, etc (most of which cite the Online Etymology Dictionary)
Differences between dyke, levee and berm? - English Language Usage . . . A dyke and a levee are both walls to keep out water It appears that levee is associated only with rivers while dyke can also apply to the sea A berm isn't necessarily associated with damming water It's just a raised area (mound or ledge) of dirt
Difference between ditch, trench and gutter [closed] Thus Offa's Dyke is a combined structure and Car Dyke is a trench, though it once had raised banks as well In the midlands and north of England, and in the United States, a dike is what a ditch is in the south, a property boundary marker or small drainage channel
Suffering succotash - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Welcome to EL U Please note that this is a Q A site, not a discussion forum, but your post does not answer the original question, which asks whether sufferin' succotash was still in common use before the Looney Tunes cartoons were made, years before the Dick Van Dyke Show aired
Meaning of levee - English Language Usage Stack Exchange @HotLicks According to the OED entry the 'reception' meaning originated in the 17th century and was used in England but the 'mud bank' meaning is from 18th century America Both meanings come from French, of course, and are, I suspect, independent of each other Also a mud bank flood defence isn't as commonly called a 'levee' in Br English, it tends to be called a 'bank' or a 'dyke' Calling
Origin of the expression pull your finger out I've heard that "pull your finger out" came from muzzle loaded gunnery One of the team firing the gun would put his finger in the hole during loading to prevent embers being ejected from the hole