unnerved

Describing an ongoing state of wretching, vomiting and self-loathing due to adolescent humiliation by a severe, sexually-frustrated 70-year-old English teacher at a 1960s private girls' school in Cleveland, Ohio, who stated that the word "unnerved" did not exist.

It does now. Look it up, bitch.

Forty-five years later, "Zero for the Day, Arms" found the nerve to define "unnerved."

by Carol Arms September 27, 2007