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A.Word.A.Day--hotsy-totsy hotsy-totsy (HOT-see TOT-see) adjective, also hotsie-totsie Just right; perfect. [Coined by Billy DeBeck, cartoonist (1892-1942), famed for his comic strip "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith". Another of his coinage that has found a place in the English language dictionaries is heebie-jeebies meaning jitters or creeps (See AWAD archives, August 1997).] "(Billy Bob) Thornton has played unfathomable, soulful characters before. He was the ace air traffic controller in Pushing Tin, who baffles his colleagues by getting the hotsy-totsy girl." Stuart Jeffries, A Movie About a Barber Who Wants to Be a Dry Cleaner? The Guardian (London), May 14, 2001. This week's theme: coined words. X-Bonus Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)

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