Meanings of words

[Mililalil XXIV]

Freak - What a person is in an awkward state without the experience to weather it with compusure.

tandom

[Riesa]

Tandom: Kingdom of unsunblocked summer skin.

babycakes

[Mililalil XXIV]

Babycakes - little pieces of cake taken out of the mother cake.

serendipitude

[kathycf]

serendipitude:

Having an odd or strange attitude "Sandy's 'tude has changed , she acting all serendipitude-ish."

"Hornswoggled"

[Mililalil XXIV]

"Hornswoggled" - Having been swoggled by a horn.

corndog

[Pendragon]

Corndog Rare breed of canine that is a vegetarian, not a carnivore


Understudy

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Understudy - Noun - (1)The lower level of a two storey study, or (2)(rare, archaic) The part of a house's cellar which is located immediately beneath the study.

Calliope

[Mililalil XXIV]

Calliope - A nurse that makes an epic-demic of every little thing.

thunderstruck

[Virgil]

thunderstruck - having been missed by lightening by mere inches, a feeling of love at first sight at the first person of the opposite sex that you meet.


strand

[Petrarch's Love]

strand: a now archaic abbreviation for St. Randy, thought to have been one of the patron saints of monastic celibacy in the middle ages. Commonly found in MSS of the Middle English period, the most famous occurence of the abbreviation occurs in the MS entitled "The Second Monkes Tale," which is now widely accepted by scholars as one of the missing Canterbury Tales despite the fact that it is conspicuously absent from the Ellesmere MS.

parent

[adilyoussef]

A parent can be a male or a female, but for sure is the one who suffers till his/her progeny assumes the same responsibility.

Moors

[kathycf]

Moors: That cool new nightclub that opened up in Boston last week.

Gurgle

[Virgil]

Gurgle - that choking noise in your throat just after trying to swallow a bite that is twice the size of your esophagus.

bedlam

[Pendragon]

Bedlam The small sheep one discovers sleeping in one's boudoir


Dolt

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Dolt - verb (pp of dell) - Sinusspeak for told, as in, "I dolt you I ad a gold in by dose."


Flamboyant

[Pendragon]

Flamboyant A insect Beau Brummell


Flapper

[kathycf]

Flapper:
Fliipper's first cousin and best friend.

Cranky

[Mililalil XXIV]

Cranky - The quality of knowing what would make you happy, but, because you seem to be wasting time with the exact opposite, and are being imposed upon by insensitive others, you let everything you say or do only half conceal your frustration.

corrupt

[Pendragon]

Corrupt A double interuption

Optimism

[kathycf]

Optimism:

The act of squeezing into clothing you wore 10 years ago.
filibuster

[Mililalil XXIV]

Filibuster - One who keeps busting into every oppurtunity for others in court to speak, filling in the whole process of scrutiny with the pleading of his/her own case.

barques

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Barques - What a french dog does.


Marble

[Nightshade]

The best bed in the summer

Politics

[Mililalil XXIV]

Barques - What a french dog does.

Wef! Wef!

Marble
The best bed in the summer
Politics - something ill-gotten outside of Poland

handmaiden

[AimusSage]

Handmaiden - Something you'll have to content yourself with if you can't have IRON MAIDEN!

Sanatorium

[Mililalil XXIV]

sanatorium - The pedstal upon which Sanat delivers all his discourses

manickles

[kathycf]

manickles
The nickles my "ma" gave as an allowance







scrupulous

[Mililalil XXIV]

scrupulous
old lost word from an unknown tongue for "leftovers"

bank

[shinigami]

bank = a muggle version of Gringgotts...

despondence

[Themis]

Despondence: The sentiment that befalls people after a failed examination.


penance

[Pendragon]

Penance A amount deemed sufficent to pay for something


Pestilence

[Themis]

Pestilence: One of the four riders of the Apocalypse

cuteness

[Shannanigan]

cuteness: existence in a condition of being cute

turbulence

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Turbulence - noun - (of cars) A measure of the degree of extra oomph provided by the Turbo - eg. "I can get 49.7% extra turbulence out of this baby compared to my old Jag."

Scandal

[Mililalil XXIV]

bank = a muggle version of Gringgotts...

I like it!

Scandal:
Anagram for "Sacland" and for "Sadclan" and for "Sanclad".

denturist

[Pendragon]

Denturist What your dentist turns into while on holiday


Foreclosure

[Shannanigan]

Foreclosure: the beginning of the end

Mouse

[Weeping Willow]

The horrible thing that cause my hand to develop an Infection.

Folk.

[Mililalil XXIV]

"Folk" - What some Asians tell me they eat with.

amnesty

[kathycf]

Amnesty:
A particularly yummy dessert "Sue, I know I shouldn't , but I am going to have an Amnesty and a cup of coffee".

Scabbard

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Scabbard - (adjective) - (Of a person, mainly North Yorkshire (Eng.) dialect) - Extremely physically able and durable; resembling the toughness of a scab. Example, "Ayup, 'e i'n't just 'ard, 'e's scabbard, like a bloody scraped knee!"


Personable.

[Pendragon]

Personable (Dialect, mainly local, or what is called commonly "Redneck")
One's own business. As in: "Noreen an' me ain't intr'ssed in yer personable affairs, Clairie Belle!" http://www.websmileys.com/sm/crazy/069.gifhttp://www.websmileys.com/sm/crazy/069.gifhttp://www.websmileys.com/sm/crazy/069.gif


The King's English

[Mililalil XXIV]

The King's English! - A distressing revelation about the King of Ireland.

ventricle

[kathycf]

ventricle
Noun: Slang for an attractive guy.
"Wow, did you see that ventricle dancing with Cindy?'

Mango

[Cormeister37]

Weakness is feigned confidence

[Cormeister37]

Next word: Withdrawal

[Cormeister37]

I'm sorry I messed it up I thought page 6 was the last page, but I guess I'll do Mango

Mango: exclamation used to express a feeling of surprised elation, such as when one wins the lottery

Next word: Withdrawal

[kathycf]

Withdrawal:
adv. used in conjunction with another word as an intensifier.
"My granny is withdrawal-old!"

*edit* I guess it would help if I supplied the next word, eh?

Spoon

[Pendragon]

Spoon Old-fashioned for "flirt" (if you don't believe me, look it up!) ;)


Gooseneck

[ShoutGrace]

GOOSENECK

This word is most often used to describe the akward interaction between teenagers of the opposite sex - i.e. "Those kids should stop goosenecking and just go out for a date."

It can also be used in the singular to describe a severe wrenching motion, most often as it concerns jars, i.e. "I had to really gooseneck that pickle jar but I got her open."

PRATTLE

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Prattle - Noun (contraction of pre-rattle) - The faint sound that's not quite clearly heard immediately before a car develops a definite rattle.


Avoid

[kathycf]

Avoid
adjective. A slangy term for attractive:
"Sally, that dude is avoid!"


cakewalk

[ShoutGrace]

Cakewalk

This word describes the shuffling shamble of one who has recently engorged copious amounts of cake. "Did you see Uncle Al's cakewalk? He must have eaten a lot of dessert."


milder

[Mililalil XXIV]

Milder - A southerners' dialectal variant form of "mildew", influenced by the influx Germanic elements.

platoon

[Pendragon]

Platoon A vessel much like a spittoon, but flatter and used in fancier places.


Chamberpot

[Mililalil XXIV]

Chamberpot - A French imitation of the English Berpot, which is an English rip-off of the original berpot, which was French.

Grumblings

[kathycf]

Grumblings:
the growl of an old dog.

Smattering

[Mililalil XXIV]

Smattering - The uttering of the name "samantha" by a lisping stutterer.

sanitize

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Sanitize - Trade name for a once-popular carbonated drink with antiseptic properties.


Carbonated

[kathycf]

Carbonated
adjective: used to express when one is extremely tired.
"G'night Bob, I am totally carbonated."

gobble

[Pendragon]

Gobble (n.) Plural of the word "goober" which at least in these parts means a simple-minded person. :rolleyes:
Whippersnapper (yes, it's a word!)

[Mililalil XXIV]

Whippersnapper - one who whips a snapper.

[Pendragon]

Threadneedle One who forgets to leave a word so the thread can continued, thus needlessly needling his friends... :rolleyes:


Brickhouse

[kathycf]

Brickhouse
1.) noun--a song by the Commodores.
2.) adjective--term used to describe a *cough* "full-figured" female used in the above song.
3.) adjective--How I can describe my brain at knowing the above 2 facts. :brow:

Widget

[Pendragon]

Widget
1.) An annoying little scraper containing a razor blade used to remove stickers from auto windscreens.
2.) An annoying person who seems to know everything about annoying little gadgets.



Tarn

[kathycf]

Tarn
noun
a teen slang type term for a ride.

"Sue, I gotta go, my tarn is here."

Bamboozle

[Pendragon]

Bamboozle To gulp copious amounts of cheap booze in an effort to get drunk as quickly as possible (Sadly, I have been there...) http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/alc.gif


Indolence


Edit: Oh, yeah: And Kathy, Tarn is a curve in the road as in "Ah better hit th' brakes er we'll never make this next tarn." ;) :nod:

[Pendragon]

Indolence To pass out, or dole out the lances at a jousting competition ;)


Helment

[ShoutGrace]

Helment - A dented helmet.

"Should't you get Arthur a new helmet for his birthday?"
"Why, his helment works just fine!"

colloquial

[kathycf]

colloquial: noun.
A nifty new drink being served at some swanky new nightclub.

Fandango

[Pendragon]

Fandango Series of sounds uttered by an incompetent electrician to explain how he lost his fingers: " Fan! Dang! O!"


Wilco

[adilyoussef]

wilco, this I don't know.

water

[Pendragon]

Water A basic need for life

BTW
WILCO Army Acronym-- Will Comply. Use thusly, by a radio operator receiving orders. "Roger. WILCO." This signifies he understands the orders and will comply with them.

Farfetched

[Pendragon]

Farfetched To bring a long distance

Seaside

[adilyoussef]

Seaside is where I live.

Exams

[thevintagepiper]

Exams: Annoying, nerve wracking things that have far too many nosy questions and for which there can be serious consequences if you are found cheating (i.e. pre-thought out answers on the bottom of too-large shoes).

Pernicious

[Pendragon]

Pernicious Very knowledgable about the works of Anne McCaffery :)


Ambitious

[adilyoussef]

Ambitious: expectations without limit till deth rings the bell.

[Pendragon]

You left me without out a word, dear friend. So I will use "Expectations."

Expectations A word that Charles Dickens obviously thought meant "excruciatingly boring."

Poetry

[kathycf]

Poetry:
A breakfast pastry one can enjoy with coffee. Or tea, even. Milk? sure.

Slurp

[adilyoussef]

Sorry Pen, I didn't pay attantion to that.

Slurp: a noisy drinking maner that makes people look at you in amaizment.

Chocolate

[Pendragon]

Chocolate Manna from heaven


Ice Cream

[adilyoussef]

Ice Cream sweet and soft like a princess' kiss

Heaven

[kathycf]

Heaven:
A palace of contentment, filled with good friends, good books and good chocolate.

Extrovert

[Pendragon]

Extrovert A former Trovert (rimshot!) http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/froehlich/k005.gif


Introvert

[RobinHood3000]

Introvert - a trovert that gets to sit at the popular table.

Hairbrush

[MarieAntoinette]

Hairbrush:
A tamer of manes.

skyline

[Pendragon]

skyline A more socially proper name for "receding hairline" in males :lol:


Verbose

[kathycf]

Verbose:
What they make those weird dish sponges out of.


defenestrate

[Kelly_Sprout]

defenestrate:

The [insert your ethnic group or generalization here] were so upset about being the butt of jokes that they decided to express their 1st Amendment Rights by defenestrating on Washington.

When last seen, they were just six miles south of Seattle.


rogue

[kathycf]

rogue
adj. of an enormous and/or really cool nature.
"I need a rogue radio, and I need it now, Sue."

hubbub

[Pendragon]

Hubbub Colloquial for the guy who changes tires

Blubber

[kathycf]

Blubber:
The quarter inch of flesh that surges over the instep when sandals are too tight.

Scandalous

[adilyoussef]

Scandalous is sth desastrous with shame.

Shame

[Pendragon]

Shame The stigma placed upon others by persons no better than themselves


Embarassment

[kathycf]

Embarassment
adj. ostentatious, but not cool.
"What do you think of that girl, Jane?" -- "She's Embarassment!"

Bayonet

[Pendragon]

Bayonet A titled land owner, a few rungs down the ladder from a Baronet


Backwater

[Kelly_Sprout]

Backwater The mysterious ability of the toilet to refill when you flush it.


Somnolence

[kathycf]

Somnolence:
A best selling horror/suspense novel about how they and those who work for them will get you when you nap....
:O

Crunchy

[Pendragon]

Crunchy Descriptive of the noise you usually get when in the middle of a very important cell-phone call...


Flimflam

[Pendragon]

Flimflam The actual meaning of the word is to perpetuate a hoax, to trick someone by slick talk or acting—a good description of big business in action!


Hex

[Kelly_Sprout]

Hex - n. A small cube of bone with a different number of dots on each side, typically used for gambolling {look it up, peeps, that spelling is intentional!}

spaghetti

[Pendragon]

Spaghetti Its'a what yousa eat if'a yousa Italian, Capirsi? ;)

Capisce

[Virgil]

Yes, I capisce. It would take an Italian like me to know that means to understand.

Gloss

Hi Pen. Hope you're having a good evening.

[Pendragon]

Gloss To shine up and make look better. Also to sidestep the truth for the same reason.


Hogwash


:wave: Hi, Virgil. Yes, I'm doing quite well, thank you. :nod:

[kathycf]

Hogwash:
Noun
When a motorcycle club gets together and washes their Harleys.
"Hey, Bob! Weren't we supposed to have a hogwash this weekend?"

Flimsy

[Pendragon]

Flimsy Exremely thin, such as the cover story told by a teen to his or her parents to explain why they are two hours past curfew... :rolleyes:


Motherboard

[Kelly_Sprout]

Motherboard -- A secret society of women dedicated to the preservation and refinement of such torture and humiliation techniques as:

* washing a child's face by licking their finger or a corner of their blouse, then rubbing the face

* public displays of pride and affection for their children

* public acts of discipline

* insisting that their children hold their hands while crossing the street

* kissing their children good-night
_______________________________________

insomnia

[kathycf]

Insomnia:

A well known trait defining lovely, intelligent, delightful, wellspoken females from north central Massachusetts.... ;) ;) ;)

Sarcasm (wait, I think I already defined that re:what I just said. :brow: )


Ok, here we go:

Rotunda

[Pendragon]

Rotunda What I seem to be getting more of since I passed 40! :lol:


Cupola

[Riesa]

Insomnia:

A well known trait defining lovely, intelligent, delightful, wellspoken females from north central Massachusetts.... ;) ;) ;)


and shy mothers from Texas, please.

cupola:

In spanish speaking countries cupola is the morning gift of a bright and friendly hello, shared between friends. Kind of like Matté, only verbal.

next word: tickle

[kathycf]

Tickle:

A woman's antiperspirant from the 1970's that I used to steal from my older sister to make a date for one of my dolls. ("he" was the same height....true story!)

Next word:
Tawdry

[Pendragon]

Tawdry After I overcame my shyness and finally got a girlfriend in highschool, I was tawdry for all my classes... http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/liebe/d035.gif


Asp

[RobinHood3000]

What Pendragon is always staring at--oh, ASP!! Oh, that's what the crosswords always describe as "venomous [Egyptian] snake," that is.


Yankee

[Kelly_Sprout]

Yankee: To pullee on the stringee thingee and make the lightee come on.

Garbage

[kathycf]

Garbage:
According to my dog, a delicious food substance to be stolen in the dead of night.

Flamingo

[Kelly_Sprout]

Flamingo:
A piece of tawdry plastic designed to make your conch-pink condo on the beach look expensive by comparison.


Stargate

[RobinHood3000]

Stargate - Something perpetually locked to outsiders. Why won't Jackie Chan won't lemme in?

Atlantis

[Pendragon]

Atlantis A land similar to the Titanic in that it sank. It is dissimilar in that we can prove the Titanic did. We must take Plato's word for the former. :nod:


Mu

[kathycf]

Mu:
Cat slang. Similiar to a person saying "w00t", or "Heck yeah!"
"Meow?"---"Mu!"

Finangle

[Kelly_Sprout]

Finangle:
A unit of measurement by which the "straight roads" in Finland are constructed.


metaphysics

[ktd222]

metaphysics:
the study of reality and me--without discernment by my senses on reality and me.

Poetry

[Pendragon]

Poetry A flowering shrub named in honor of a great poet, Edgar Alan Poe. It always has an annoying raven in it croaking "nevermore".


Prevarication

[Kelly_Sprout]

:lol: Some of these are more creative than others, but that one was one of the funniest so far, to me! :lol:


Prevarcation - (1) The flurry of activity at work that overwhelms you in the days just before taking some much needed time off. (2) The checklist of things you need to do, like setting up the camp tent in the backyard to sweep out the Black Widows, in order to get ready for that trip to the mountains so that you can listen to your teenage daughter complain about toilets, bugs, no cell phone coverage, and nothing to do.


Systematic

[Pendragon]

Systematic The robotic motions of a person who has been doing the same job for far too long


Instructions

[Nightshade]

Instructions-- THings that are never as clear as they pretend to be.

normal

[Virgil]

normal - the average person who doesn't exist

zillionaire

[Pendragon]

Zillionaire Two words: Bill Gates :brow:



Philanthropist

[kathycf]

Philanthropist
noun:
An ecofriendly, gas efficent car, to lessen the smog for our fellow humans.

"Sarah, I looked at getting a Humvee, but decided to buy a Philanthropist instead"

Chortle

[Kelly_Sprout]

Chortle - noun; a musical note sounded somewhere between a guffoff and a hiccup.

Elderberry

[Nightshade]

somthing I cant get that I want for my hair or was that elderflower?? *shrug*

Efficentcy

[Pendragon]

Efficentcy When the shortest route between two points is a straight line to find a better route


Ethical

[Kelly_Sprout]

Ethical - When a man is a law unto himself.


By-product

[kathycf]

By-product:
the last thing you ever want to see offered as a restaurant entree.

Scandalous

[Virgil]

Scandalous
The every day expeience of movie stars.

Hi Kathy, nice new avy.

Next word: tinnitus

[Pendragon]

Tinnitus Fracturing of the eardrum caused by listening to excesivily loud music that results in your thinking that anyone else's taste in music is garbage... http://www.websmileys.com/sm/music/musik14.gif


Symphony

[Kelly_Sprout]

Symphony - A false synonym
Ex. "Pit" (Sym. "Whole")

bemused

[Pendragon]

Bemused Highly entertained by a flying insect of the genus Bombus

Insipid

[Pendragon]

Insipid Within the borders of the township of Sipid, somewhere on the foggy shores of Erewhon


Noggin

[kathycf]

Noggin:
Something to crack when you fall off the wall, like Humpty Dumpty.

Sentient

[Pendragon]

Sentient What the hillbilly yelled about when he got to the campsite. "Dang it, Bubba! Yew only brought th' sleepin' bags! Ah sentient, yuh durn fool! Now we's gonna git wet!"


Prestige

[Kelly_Sprout]

Prestige: To question (interogate) someone

"What did you do with the money?"
"Don't ask me, ask my partner, Tige!"
"I'm asking you."
"Well, dang it, prestige, 'cause I ain't talking."

Beauteous

[Adelheid]

when Beauty wept.

Prioritise

[Pendragon]

Prioritize (corrected spelling)To try to bring order to chaos by structuring your day. We always forget to factor in fate, so it usually doesn't work very well... ;) :nod:


Justify

[Pendragon]

Justify Only an ordinary insect of the musca domestica variety http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/entomology/topics/images/housefly.gif




Plagiarism

[kathycf]

Plagiarism:

A dish you REALLY don't want to order in a restaurant. Ever.

Squash

[Kelly_Sprout]

Squash: both a noun and a verb, neither of which rhymes with "orange".

Hydrogen

[fitzgolden]

Hydrogen: what Boris the turnip-hater said to Drogen when they met at a picnic on the river-bank.



Prioritize (corrected spelling) ~ only correct in North America, o senior dragon ;)


picnic

[Adelheid]

picking nits outdoors...

oblivious.

[Pendragon]

Oblivious To be so embarrassingly intoxicated as to forget even where you live, thus causing total strangers to wonder who the lush is who is trying to climb through a window while complaining profanely that his key doesn't work in the lock anymore!

DUI

[Pendragon]

Oblivious To be so embarrassingly intoxicated as to forget even where you live, thus causing total strangers to wonder who the lush is who is trying to climb through a window while complaining profanely that his key doesn't work in the lock anymore! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/nahrung/h035.gif

DUI

[Kelly_Sprout]

DUI -- The inventor of the Decimal System.


Carousel

[kathycf]

Carousel


A slangy term for an attractive female.

"Hey Joe, did you see Marie? What a carousel!!"

Undulating

[Pendragon]

Undulating No longer bening late for appointments and then saying "Duh." when asked why.


Ethereal

[Kelly_Sprout]

Ethereal -- A drug induced state of imagined reality. See hallucinate. Comes from the early use of ether by 19th century dentists to produce a painless tooth extraction.


Hallucinate

[Pendragon]

Hallucinate To imagine that you see something in your hallway http://www.industreal.spb.ru/smiles/ghost.gif



Paranormal

[kathycf]

Paranormal

That hot new dance all the kids are doing.

scalawag

[Pendragon]

Scalawag A slight misspelling. It should actually be "scaley-wag". It describes the motion of a Dragon's (or for that matter, any reptile's) tail. http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/Fantastique/dragon-vert-542.gif


Balderdash

[Kelly_Sprout]

Balderdash -- A slight misspelling :brow: A 10 mile annual run in Boulder, Colorado. Sometimes referred to as the "Bolder Boulder".


congenial

[Pendragon]

Congenial A gentleman crook. He has the ability to con you out of your money and manage to charm you into liking it somehow. http://www.industreal.spb.ru/smiles/hat.gif


Bovine

[kathycf]

Bovine:

A misspelling ;)
It should read as Bo Vine, resident of Cowflerker Springs, Massachusetts. Did you know old Bo is a neighbor of mine?

phalange

[Kelly_Sprout]

Phalange -- A soft nest of fur and comfort. (The word is derived from Jessaca Lange's relationship with King Kong when she was protected by his great hand and fingers.)


Elastic

[Pendragon]

Elastic An extremly stretchable bloodsucking parasite


Parachute

[RobinHood3000]

Parachute - double-barrelled shotgun

Ghostbuster

[kathycf]

Ghostbuster:

One who communes with spirits via a seance, only to make fun of them.



Sheepishly

[RobinHood3000]

Sheepishly -- The manner in which women generally talk to Robin :cool:

Arrogance ;)

[kathycf]

Arrogance

The manner with which Robin answers them. With an "arro" :brow: ;)

Paralyzing

[RobinHood3000]

Paralyzing - Robin's gaze. ;)

:blush:Blush:blush:

[Pendragon]

Blush A cosmetic often mistaken for "the bloom of youth" on people's cheeks by reasonably intelligent people who should know better! :blush:

Cryptic

[kathycf]

Cryptic
Noun

1.)The upper story of a crypt, much like an attic is the top of a house.
2.) Where Pendragon has his writer's garret. ;)



firmly

[adilyoussef]

firmly from firm the cousin of tough.

playful

[Pendragon]

Playful The condition of attempting to engage in sports after consuming a large meal


Smoking

[Kelly_Sprout]

A term of royal entitlement in the Kingdom of the Smurfs. (Judging from his avatar, Pendragon appears to the the reigning Smoking.)


cryptology

[Pendragon]

cryptology The study of tombs and gravestones http://www.industreal.spb.ru/smiles/scull.gif


Geometry

[antoniaanthony]

a subject that should be avoided... if one is able to avoid if one is able to indeed, do so.

Tomorrow

[kathycf]

Tomorrow

A common mantra chanted by procrastinators.

fecund

[Pendragon]

Fecund 1.) A foul odor, such as emanates from rotting turnips 2.) A special bred of dog trained to sniff out such caches of turnip leavings, in the event that there is a good turnip thrown away with the bad.


Rancid

[kathycf]

Rancid:

A restaurant doomed to failure.

Curious

[Kelly_Sprout]

A married couple who are museum curators.


Snake oil

[Virgil]

Snake oil ~ What you squeeze out of a snake to cure all sorts of things.

Turmoil

[Pendragon]

Turmoil A gangster's dame that's about to get fitted for a pine overcoat for double-crossing him with another yegg.


Typewritter

[aeroport]

A stenographer in want of a working knowledge of verb tenses

etymology

[Kelly_Sprout]

The study of eating.

triage

[aeroport]

(TRI-ege) the act, manner, or amount of trying
(TREE-ege) Informal forestation

Niggling

[kathycf]

Niggling:

When naughty children giggle.

Parsnip.

[Kelly_Sprout]

(PAR snip) A golfing term for "making par" by cutting off strokes.
(pars NIP) The tentative taking of a tiny taste of something you suspect might taste bad. See "turnip".


Turnip

[Pendragon]

Turnip 1.) Aimus' favorite food source 2.) The act of finding something, used thusly: "I told ye not t' git yer kickers in a twist, that t'would turnip even'ly, me luv!"


Firecracker

[aeroport]

wafer of Prometheus

verboten

[AimusSage]

Verboten If you ever see a sign with this word on a door, open it and get shot.

Fallacy

[kathycf]

Fallacy:

An essential fashion accessory
"Brenda, have you seen my fallacy? Aimus is coming over in 30 minutes and I need it"

cudgel

[AimusSage]

Cudgel - Something cavemen like to use upon other cavemen when they get bored waiting for the hunt.

smudge.

[aeroport]

Smudge, n - a bloody, brainy spot found upon a cudgel following the cave-brawl described above

cogitate

[ktd222]

To reason

Nissan?

[aeroport]

(Nis-sin) Onomatopoeic for the sound for the sound a dental patient makes when the dentist most presumptuously sets to work on the wrong tooth. (usually used with a question mark)

expurgate

[Pendragon]

Expurgate The name for the gate by which undesirables were cast out of the city.


Vacancy

[Kelly_Sprout]

The flying cows of Annecy, France (from vaca, meaning cows, and NCY, the airport code for Annecy-Meythe Airport in Annecy, France)


As long as we're here in the V's of our LitNet dictionary, let's try...
Vaudeville

[Pendragon]

Vaudeville Strange little hamlet located just North of Keystone, where the inhabitants are required by law to preform on stage a number of lame acts and slapstick comedy.


Viscous

[Pendragon]

Viscous To be viciously verbally assaulted


Pamper



BTW, Jamesian: In old gangster slang, to spell the word "typewriter" with two t's distinguished between the weapon (a typewriter is a Thompson sub-machine gun) and the gangster skilled in the use thereof. (The typewritter). Like this. "Listen, boss, Jake's got a typewritter in his crew of gorillas, so we best pack along some pineapples to take him out!" http://www.invision.smileyville.net/smilies/guns (16).gifThey had a lot of crazy words and phrases! Your definition was priceless to someone like myself!

[kathycf]

Pamper:

Fashion trend for babies. (Pampers, actually ;) )


Dabble

[Kelly_Sprout]

Dabble: (n) A style of painting. (v) to create art using a dab of paint


Critical

[Pendragon]

Critical Your disapproval of something I find tasteful http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/bigs/e070.gif


Cynic

[aeroport]

Cynic: the generally unwelcome fellow with that annoying habit of reminding people of the things they lie to themselves about

illustrious

[Pendragon]

Illustrious Fully illustrated


Dignified

[kathycf]

Dignified

pronunciation key: dig in f' eyed (dig in, four eyes)
A slangy type of exhortation for people with glasses (four eyes) to begin eating.

"Aren't you guys hungry? dignified!"

Slushy

[aeroport]

Slushy - adj. another slang term, used to describe the timidity of a student upon entering St. Louis University

Exemplify

[Kelly_Sprout]

Exemplify: One who once bore the title of an emplify, but who no longer bears that title.


Heartily

[Pendragon]

Heartily A significant term in organ transplant surgery that pays homage to the donor. Ex. "Mr. Walbush, we have found a suitable transplant match for you, and you will be receiving the heartily (heart of Lee)".


Plastered

[aeroport]

Plastered: adj - sufficiently intoxicated to earn one's place among cool people (similar to "wasted")

Interstice

[Pendragon]

Interstice A very small space, such as the gap in the conversation when talking with a bore.


Misanthrope

[Kelly_Sprout]

Lady Thrope, known to friends and family as Ann, before she got married.


singleton

[kathycf]

Singleton

smaller than a doubleton and much smaller than a tripleton, but bigger than a halfoton.

Flourish

[aeroport]

Flourish: adj. white, powdery, and murderous

Banderilla

[Pendragon]

Banderilla Small five-piece musical group of gorillas playing stringed instruments

Cello

[Kelly_Sprout]

Neither a solid nor a liquid, Cello is a wiggly, jiggly substance made from cellatin. Bill Cosby is the company spokesman.

Phonics

[Pendragon]

Phonics Teen speak for talking on the telephone

Tribal

[kathycf]

tribal

slangy term for "loud"

"What! I can't hear you, this music is really tribal!"

ogle

[Pendragon]

Ogle The offspring of a pair of Ogres.


GIGO

[Kelly_Sprout]

GIGO: (1) The sound of silly, pre-teen girls. (2) A maxim of sanitation specialists everywhere.


Wherewithall

[Pendragon]

Wherewithall The meeting place of the Wherewit club, an eccentric group given to finding odd and unusual definitions for words. http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/haushalt/b030.gif


Crankshaft

[Kelly_Sprout]

ROFL! at Pendragon. Your definition just now might be the funniest one in the whole thread... or perhaps I'm just more giddy this morning than usual. Nevertheless, it made me laugh!

OK, crankshaft: Broom handle. (This is the official definition of the Husbands' Dictionary).



So, let's see what someone can do with: ROLF

[Pendragon]

ROLF The dictation of a properly schooled well-bred upper-class English canine. The low-bred mutt pronounces it "RUFF", or "RALPH", or "RAFF" or some other hideous bastardization of the proper term. Ghastly, really.


GUI

[RobinHood3000]

GUI - what one dreads to tread in.

WYSIWIG

[Kelly_Sprout]

A wig that one is allergic to or so dusty that putting it on defouls the air.


Might as well keep digging in this particular vein of raw ore, so:
SDRAM

[Pendragon]

SDRAM A popular amount of drink served by misers world-wide. It is so minuscule an amount of alcohol that a fly would not get intoxicated imbibing it.

USB

[adilyoussef]

Usefule storing memory

Software

[kathycf]

Software:
The type of clothing one really wants to wear when taking a nap.

Google

[Kelly_Sprout]

G'oogle: Contraction for "Grin and oogle"


deja vue

[Pendragon]

Déjà Vu A disease caught by disc jockeys that causes them to play the same old lousy song again and again and again hahahahahahahahahaha......

Cave Canium

[aeroport]

Cave Canium - temporary name jokingly ascribed by scientists to a specimen of fecal matter, dating from several hundred years ago, solid and extremely hard, that was recently discovered in a cave

pathos

[Pendragon]

Pathos In this age of "Political Correctness" it is perhaps uncharitable of me to point out that this word is found in the language of those with impaired speech. It is used thus: "T'Cem'tary? Yeth Shur. Juth pathos threes. Can't mith it."

Obituary

[Pendragon]

Obituary Where people finally lie to the face of people they have been lying about behind their backs


Résumé

[AimusSage]

Résumé
1. The incorrect pronunciation of Resume.
2. Something people write when they need to make a summary.

Abdominal

[adilyoussef]

Abdominal: a linking part between the uper and the lower parts of the body.

Body

[Kelly_Sprout]

body
1. (bah dee) A house of ill repute
2. (bōd ee) A Quaker farewell
3. (bō dee) The word that would describe the marriage of one of the Bridges brothers to Sandra Dee

Understatement

[Shalot]

Understatement:

Underwear that have cutsey little words and messages on the rear end like "juicy" and "bootylicious" and "lucky you" :brow: --- underwear that make a statement.

(Okay it was lame -- it was the best I could come up with).


hyphen

[adilyoussef]

Hyphens sometimes change the meaning of a word, its category and sometimes not.

Hypnotize

[Riesa]

the state of being jobless but cool, hence "hip, no ties."

(lame)

cushion

[Pendragon]

Cushion Descriptive of Quasimodo's feelings for Esmerelda. "Ah got a cushion you."


Fate

[adilyoussef]

Fate is what we believe in and can't controle.

Desteny

[aeroport]

Destiny is what we do not necessarily believe in, and still cannot control.

StickyKeys

[Pendragon]

StickyKeys A computer virus that causes jhebsr tkhenrt,t k,tkm; Usually caused by people eating or drinking something at the keyboardddddddddd

Hard drive

[Shalot]

Hard Drive: a car trip that is several hours long and involves screaming brats, rain, squeaky windshield wipers, nothing on the radio, a flatulant passenger, a traffic jam, a detour and a flat tire. A hard road ahead -- a hard drive.

Manager

[aeroport]

Manager - an elderly male

Shrug

[subterranean]

Shrug: something you give when you're dying for an attention

ketchup

[Nightshade]

Ketchup: The most disgusting thing to wash off dishes.

Pickle:

[subterranean]

Pickle: something you need to consume when you're enjoying goat soup as it will help you maintain your blood preassure.


glue:

[Pendragon]

glue A bonding agent that will hold together anything except what you are trying to fix. Example: Using super-glue, you try to repair a favorite nick-nack only to find your fingers stuck tightly together and the broken piece still broken! :blush:

Forum:

[Shalot]

Forum: an addictive place on the internet

Disappointment

[adilyoussef]

A feeling of betreal.

Manifestation

[aeroport]

Manifestation - orig. an erroneous spelling for a term designating the "baby boom" (i.e. "ma infestation") ... yes, lame, I know. Sorry.

Disagreeable