Moosoo is the interested escort, when the restaurant music is too loud at dinner. (See Huzzlecoo.)
Children are moosoo, when they can’t go to the circus; the traveling salesman, when his cigar leaks; and even the polite husband, when the burned chops are set before him.
The weather, itself, can be moosoo, with clouds and dullness for weeks at a time.
The day was moosoo; Mary Ann
Was moosoo, so was I;
And moosoo were the girl and man
Whom we’d invited—why?
Why did we sulk, disgusted, far
From home, discouraged, blue?
Because my brand new motor-car
Alas, was moosoo, too!
Nink, n. 1. A useless “antique” object, preserved in worship of the picturesque. 2. An imitation of a by-gone style.
Nink´ty, a. Architecturally dishonest.
You buy your ninks at “Ye Olde Shoppe” and by that “Ye”—you shall know the ninkty. For a nink is a brass candlestick with no candle in it; the pewter mugs and platters, unpolished, on the sideboard; the old china, dusty and unused upon the wall; old tiles and brass knockers.
The old flax-wheel in the corner is a nink; the framed old sporting prints of horse races and stagecoaches; the framed theatre bills. Pompeian bronze tripods, never lighted, in hotel corridors. (See Gorgule.)
A beefsteak party is a nink, and May-day dances and pageants; anything revived, revamped for modern use. Doors, covered with nails and decorative hinges bolted on; things sewed with thongs; imitation parchment scrolls. Whale-oil lamps, ships’ lanterns; almost any object of leather, copper, or brass. (See Gefoojet.)