The crush may be embarrassing to the crushee, but it was found to be such far less frequently than not.

His zebra-horse hybrids, or zebrules, and his horse-zebra hybrids, or zebrinnies, are not marked like their Burchell-zebra parent, but resemble in both cases the Somali zebra, which is the most primitive of all its kind.

You're such a leg., mate!

I like the way Brant herself describes the book as crimance... a perfect genre description.