“If they really wanted you to understand what they were talking about they wouldn’t have used an obscure British slang term like “cockwomble”.”
When it comes to reading a Mark Steyn column, it’s a feature, not a bug, IMO. His writing is not for the linguistically-incurious nor those who managed to arrive in 2018 without an effective search engine. Sorry it’s so unnerving for you...
Everybody knows what a cockwomble is.
I suppose there are folks here who don't know what a Wimhurst generator is.
What is this country coming to?