Enjoying the ride so far. Glad the success of the sale is getting lots of chapters out.
Point of usage:
>> I was always getting flack for wanting <<
"Flack" is jargon for "publicity agent". Merriam-Webster lists a couple of unverifiable origins, one eponymous and one related to Yiddish.
The word you probably want is "flak", an acronym coined during WWII to denote the exploding shells fired at Allied aviators as they conducted bombing runs over Germany. It derives from the German word "Fliegerabwehrkannonen" (= "flyer defense cannon"), the ground-to-air artillery from which the shells were launched.
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dancing_serpent
Starting to catch up
Date: 2016-11-30 06:11 am (UTC)Point of usage:
>> I was always getting flack for wanting <<
"Flack" is jargon for "publicity agent". Merriam-Webster lists a couple of unverifiable origins, one eponymous and one related to Yiddish.
The word you probably want is "flak", an acronym coined during WWII to denote the exploding shells fired at Allied aviators as they conducted bombing runs over Germany. It derives from the German word "Fliegerabwehrkannonen" (= "flyer defense cannon"), the ground-to-air artillery from which the shells were launched.