Litnet's version of Devil's dictionary

[Pendragon]

Hokum: False or irrelevant material introduced into a speech, essay, etc., in order to arouse interest, excitement, or amusement. In other words, the usual Political Debate drivel.

Unctuous:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Unctuous: oily, insincere, when a politician shakes your hand, smiles at you and tells you how much he admires you.

Fatuous:

[YesNo]

Fatuous: This word probably has nothing to do with fat just like the word unctuous has nothing to do with unct, but it is hard to avoid the associations like when someone says something is oxymoronic. We know they think it is moronic. And so when some oxymorons say that some comment I made was fatuous, they don’t literally mean I should check the scale, but they know I will. There’s no other reason to use the word since no normal person knows what it means.

Scale:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Scale: What Smaug the dragon had lots of, till he took an arrow where he didn't, and ceased to be. Then he didn't have any scales. Then there's the scale in a butcher shop, which the butcher weighs your meat on, but luckily not his own. That we know of. Then there are the scales of justice, whose depiction in statuary tops the entrance to every courthouse, making us laugh till the moo juice comes out our noses. Then there's the post office scale, used by drug dealers when measuring out quantities of horse and coke. And finally there's the bathroom scale, which I haven't stood on in years and don't intend to.

And I don't agree that no normal person knows what fatuous means. I know what it means. <cough>

Dung heap:

[YesNo]

Dung Heap: From the perspective of a dung beetle, this is a glorious gift from the Gods. From the perspective of the creatures depositing said heap, it is a glorious form of relief.

Relief:

[Calidore]

Relief: When a tree grows its foliage back in Spring.

Foliage:

[Pendragon]

Relief: Having someone post a word like "fatuous" and knowing exactly what it means instead of thinking you're being insulted for being fat!

Sang-froid:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Sangfroid: The ability to stay calm under pressure, self-possession, cool, being chill while decapitating nine children and stashing the remains under your porch.

But what do you have against foliage, Pendragon? ;-) Foliage: A bunch of leaves hanging off a tree. Lazy buggers.

Also, YesNo, your perspective on dung heaps does you credit. I'll just call you Sri YesNo from now on, shall I?

Satori:

[tailor STATELY]

Satori: zeninabhagavadgita

Siri:

[Pendragon]

Siri: Object oriented Computer language, thus: "I am going to smash this siri computer which isn't worth a siri to siri pieces thia siri of a siri!"

Cheddar, I beat Calidore to the punch, but I had to edit to correct spelling, and his got in before I got back, and I just didn't see it. Foliage: Bushy plants

Unbreakable:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Unbreakable: A rather good movie. Also, definitely not my balls. Also purportedly a type of glass, though I suspect that if Sancho whacked it with his tripod it'd give. I mean.

Unfathomable, a favorite word of mine, so you'd better get it right lads.

[Calidore]

Unfathomable: Dry land

Knots

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Knots: Played Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show. Also the basis of the Japanese art of Kinbaku, literally 'the beauty of tight binding.' And no, I won't tell you how I know.

Malevolent, since I just watched an episode of House of Cards

[Pendragon]

Malevolent: Feeling of intense evil directed towards someone. You know people like this. They can clear a bar by just walking in. They can make everyone shut up by just walking towards people. They always make you clutch your wallet and give them the whole sidewalk, if not the whole block!

Mild-Mannered:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Mild-Mannered: Clark Kent and Peter Parker both were said to exhibit this quality, thus confirming that, as the saying goes, "It's always the quiet ones..." I also met a deceptively mild-mannered rabbi when I was born, who then produced a pair of pruning shears and went to work on my todger. Trust no one.

Spunky, an unfortunately named personal attribute if ever there was one.

[Sea]

Spunky: 1) Courageous, determined, spirited or plucky. 2) (British slang) Stained with gentleman jelly.
Example sentence: "With a primarily male Parliament, Margaret Thatcher knew should would need to be spunky if she were to have any clout."

Macaronic:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Macaronic: Latin word mixed with vernacular, with Latin endings. I've just been reading about it, thanks for the edification, Sea. Still trying to find more examples of it which I can relate to, as all the example I dun found are archaic. Spunkito ergo sum.

As for the aforementioned elucidations of spunky and Thatcher, how about: "With a primarily male Parliament, Margaret Thatcher knew she'd have to be spunky, sooner or later."

Cloth eared bint:

[Pendragon]

Cloth eared bint: Loose term for a stupid bloke who thinks that women aren't listening to him. and he would be right 2) A woman who never listens 3) a cat

Doohicky:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Doohicky: Stuck between doodad and thingamajig.

chav:

[tailor STATELY]

chav:

1) Clinically Hateful And Vile ("Clinically" in this instance [from the fredictionary.com]: Involving or based on direct observation of a patient)
2) Chav: My pet name for Remy Chaveau - a researcher of the famous alchemist Nicolas Flamel (since Remy [and Rowan] must always be associated with Martin).

Flannel:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Flannel: The other famous Remy. Remy Flannel (that's Flah-NEL) researched Byzantine pottery shard erotica, whose surviving and partial imagery indicate a preference for bukkake on the part of the pre-Constantinople population.

Turgid:

[Pendragon]

Turgid: Swollen and distended, unfortunately used to describe the male sexual organ when it does its thing, something they sell drugs to help with now. If your member stays "turgid" for more than four hours you should seek medical help. 2) inflated, overblown, or pompous; bombastic: Ex) Donald Trump is a "turgid" politician.

Flaccid:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Flaccid: Limp, floppy, flimsy, infirm. Note that Donald Trump is both a turgid and a flaccid politician at the same time.

Thrust:

[Pendragon]

Thrust: To push violently,

Ipso Facto:

[mona amon]

Ipso Facto: Usually used by lawyers to confuse everyone, it is a fancy way of saying "in itself" or "by definition". We can also substitute the more easily understood "per se" and still be using a Latin phrase.

Lawyer

[Pendragon]

Lawyer: A person who represents the interests of another in court so long as it pays. It makes no difference to said lawyer whether the facts are correct or not as long as they can win their case. It is said, because often evidence that could clear the person or evidence that would surely convict a person are danced around so much that the jury never hears it. Check out the TV Series "How to Get Away with Murder."

Time:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Time: the fourth dimension, in hour universe, being temporal rather than physical. Also something whose forward motion, as opposed to backwards motion, used to intrigue Stephen Hawking. Also something which fascinated cubist painters, who tried to represent people and things as they would appear to a four dimensional person, since they didn't know at that time that the fourth dimension was not spatial, but temporal. Also a world-changing song by Pink Floyd on Dark Side of the Moon.

Space:

[YesNo]

Space: A new frontier lying between one ear and the other.

More Then Likely:

[Calidore]

More Than Likely: Lovely

Splendiferous

[Pendragon]

Splendiferous: Adding unneeded letters to "splendid" and getting the same meaning, pompously stating that things are fine.

Jawbreaker:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Jawbreaker: Now this one's tricky. On the one hand, it's the proper name of an ubiquitous candy treat. On the other--well, the other's more or less the same, but usually applied to girls of a certain age sashaying down the halls of our secondary schools in improbably tight skirts, with their books under one arm, while with the opposite hand they twirl lollipops in their mouths.

[YesNo]

You didn't provide another word, Tyrion. OK, let's say it is "lollipop".

Lollipop: Something cute girls twirl in their mouths as they sashay down the hall to their next class to help them gain weight.

Sashay:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Sashay: A deliberately provocative style of walking employed by said girls in aforementioned tight skirts to cause a certain reaction in the male teachers such that they have to excuse themselves to the men's room, where they can be found weeping and punching their fists against the tiles.

Tease: Which kind of tease is up to you.

[Pendragon]

Tease: The way a woman with cavernous visible cleavage daintily pulls her skirt down after crossing her legs upon sitting down.

Cavernous:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Cavernous: I once dated a girl who was cavernous. Mind you, her previous boyfriend was a power forward.

Anaconda:

[Pendragon]

Anaconda: The world's largest, but not longest, snake from the Amazon, which isn't Facebook postings notwithstanding, in Africa..

Facebook:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Facebook: Most significant invention since the heretics fork, the difference being, of course, the pleasure given by the heretics fork.

Surreptitious:

[Pendragon]

Surreptitious: Jawbreaker word for "sneaky"

Aficionado:

[YesNo]

Aficionado: A fan or fanatic absorbed by the thought of something or other that normal people couldn’t care less about.

Literally: (Like in the following: "She chased me here. She chased me there. To escape I had to literally jump into a parallel universe.")

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Literally: Not figuratively or metaphorically, but actually, as described, as in "I literally just ate a whole pizza, and am now wishing I'd only done it metaphorically. Tomorrow I'll be sitting on the toilet for literally hours."

Regularity:

[YesNo]

Regularity: A pattern detected in repetitive events that happen over and over and over again to the point that one expects them to continue happening over and over and over again.

Parallel Universe:

[Pendragon]

Parallel Universe: Donald Trump's residence

Trump:

[YesNo]

Trump: A card or suit of cards that has a special role to play in a game. It could also refer to a politician and if you are reading this in 2116 rather than 2016 you hopefully have never heard of him.

Suit of cards:

[Pendragon]

Suit of cards: Sort of like "The Emperor's New Clothes" 2) heart, club, diamond, spade or if it's a deck of Tarot Cards swords, staves, cups, and pentacles. I have also heard that the card suit known as "clubs" was once "acorns"

Tarot Cards:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Tarot Cards: In every city, town, village, burgh, hamlet or hillock in America, there's a hole in the wall store front with a tacky neon sign advertising the fortune telling prowess of Madam Zora, who, for reasons far beyond me, continues in this day and age to be able separate the witless from their money, as they shuffle in like lemmings to have their futures revealed via the tarot cards. Did someone say a fool and his money are soon parted? I think someone did.

I Ching:

[YesNo]

I Ching: An ancient Chinese divination text providing interpretations for seemingly random patterns made with yarrow sticks.

Ancient:

[spikepipsqueak]

Ancient: Anyone over 65 until about 9am. Anyone over 75 until about 11. Anyone over 85.



Biology

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Biology: That thing which leads us inexorably to being ancient.

Proctology:

[YesNo]

Proctology: A field of medicine that’s useful to know about should you ever get into that yoga position where you stick your head up your butt.

Witless:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Witless: A condition that can only be described as having one's head up one's butt.

Condition:

[YesNo]

Condition: What one has if one’s head gets stuck in places it doesn’t belong. If that should happen, don’t forget the photo.

Stuck:

[Pendragon]

Stuck: 1) Unable to move, i.e., I got stuck in traffic. 2) Hampered by i.e., I am stuck in this job. 3) The opposite of humble, usually used with the word "up", i.e., Trump is a stuck up embarrassment of a politician.

Embarrassment

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Embarrassment: The word that best describes the field of candidates currently running for president. Indeed, that Americans tolerate this farcical election and, indeed, intend to still vote on Election Day--instead of, oh, let's say, completing the work that Guy Fawkes, in being apprehended, was prevented from carrying out--is a major embarrassment.

Fireworks:

[Pendragon]

Fireworks: A Chinese invention that has come to mark Fourth of July celebrations even though a) The US did not fight for independence against China or with China's help, and B) Fireworks are illegal in many states including my home state of Virginia, despite the fact that four out of the first five Presidents was from Virginia...

Invention:

[YesNo]

Invention: A way of doing something or a new product that represents something new introduced by someone with the intention to make or do something new.

Farcical:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Farcical: Ludicrous, absurd. Anything whose veracity can be compared to my Aunt Fanny.

Pendragon, the fireworks on the Fourth are meant to emulate and hearken back to the "rocket's red glare," the cannon fire and explosions of the battles of our Revolution. Although, Chinese food is an option during said celebrations.

Suppository:

[Pendragon]

Cheddar: I am well aware of that...

Suppository: Medicine that coined the phrase "Stick it up your @$&!"

Coined:

[YesNo]

Coined: A phrase or word that gets said and then re-said because we are such herding and imitative creatures who like to say and re-say stuff and in that manner turn thoughts into something as solid as we hope a coin might be.

In flagrante delicto:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

In flagrante delicto? We did this one, mate, and in fact I wrote the definition, a reply so witty on my part, so immeasurably jocular, that The Sun dedicated placed an extra busty girl on Page 3 the next day in tribute. And I accepted with both hands.

Virago:

[Pendragon]

Virago: A woman who in Shakespeare's time would be termed a shrew, today we use a word that rhymes with "rich"

Oafish:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Oafish: We all seem to have the presidential election on our minds, as my virago was in fact Hillary in a cunning (not) disguise, and for oafish we can swap in any of the male candidates. Stupid, mentally deficient, you get the idea. Either way, XX or XY, one of these gems will soon be leader of the flea world.

Cattle Prod:

[Pendragon]

Cattle Prod: A contact taser on steroids

Steroids:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Steroids: A terribly uncomfortable, often painful health condition which, depending on severity, requires treatment ranging from a topical medicated ointment to surgery. Wait. Sorry, that's hemorrhoids. Steroids...something to do with Lance Armstrong.

Testosterone:

[Pendragon]

Testosterone: Liquid machismo

Estrogen:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Estrogen: The basis of a type of rock/pop music that became hugely popular in the early to mid 90s, with artists like Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morrissette and others becoming huge stars and culminating in the Lilith Fair series of outdoor concert events. Featured a lot of whiny love songs and angry, b*tchy anthems in which some ragged out wench whose daddy never loved her condemned men and described the forms of castration she intended to visit on them. Was a refreshing change from the cheerfulness of grunge.

Creme donut:

[Pendragon]

Creme donut: Ambrosia!

Simple:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Simple: Simon.

Apostasy:

[YesNo]

Apostasy: A game where a lucky player can pick a card reading, “Go to hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.”

Monopoly:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Monopoly: A type of radio antenna consisting of a straight, rod-shaped conductor, often mounted over some type of conductive surface, called a ground plane. Monopoles should not be confused with tadpoles, which are not known to conduct radio signals.

Brined pickles:

[Pendragon]

Brined pickles: Making dill pickles with salt which results in a taste that must be an acquired one...

Salt Pork:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Salt pork: Long used as a shipboard ration, salt pork is made from the same cuts as bacon, and resembles uncut bacon. It now finds use in traditional American cuisine, particularly Boston baked beans, pork and beans, and to add its flavor to vegetables cooked in water, or with greens as in soul food. It's also central to the flavoring of clam chowder. Note that I got through this whole explanation without making one sexual joke, which with a name like salt pork I feel I should be given pretty notable kudos for.

Pulled Pork, and I can't promise I won't make the aforementioned type of joke with this one.

[Pendragon]

Pulled Pork: Gave a pig a ride in a wagon

Aperitif:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Aperitif: something you drink before pulling your pork. (I did warn you.)

Choked Chicken:

[Pendragon]

Choked Chicken: A chicken's status just prior to wringing its neck

Long Drop:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Long drop: Aussie slang for a toiler consisting of a board of wood with a hole cut in it, propped over a deep hole in an outhouse. And you've taught me something new, Pendragon, thanks. Mind you, my original answer, especially given the tangent we've been on, pertained to John Holmes' sausage which, famously, made a long drop every time he took it out of his pants.

Kielbasa:

[tailor STATELY]

Kielbasa: Being keelhauled with a wreath of sausages around your neck.

Keelhaul:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

keelhaul: to visit a shoppe called Keel, where are sold various items of an undisclosed and probably scandalous nature, and walk away with a bagful of said items, known in today's parlance as a haul. And thank you for teaching me the word keelhaul, tailor.

vexation

[tailor STATELY]

vexation: related to vacation and staycation; differing only in being with family who'd rather be somewhere else.

vacation:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

tailor stately, that definition of vexation was rather brilliant. ;-)

Vacation, what I wish I could be on while someone I have to be nice to is talking to me.

tolerate

[Pendragon]

Tolerate: Put up with something that you would rather not. This simple hypocritical method stops a lot of people from going off the deep end every time their values are questioned. In the words of the Snow Queen Elsa "Let It Go!"

Hypocrite:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Hypocrite: someone who says one thing and does the opposite. By definition, all teenagers think their parents are hypocrites and give them no end of crap about it. Often they are right, but haven't yet learned that being a hypocrite is part of being human, and in any case often isn't the worst quality their parents could have, comparatively speaking.

Skull splitting headache, which I've had since I woke up this morning and which will not relent.

[tailor STATELY]

Skull splitting headache: Migraine, or Urgrain if not myself, that may be a precursor of a more serious condition - or not. This conundrum is what keeps head-doctors practicing rather than healing; perpetuating the DRUG industry in making major moola.

Moola:

[YesNo]

Moola: The return one gets from milking a cash cow.

Cash Cow:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

cash cow: I had a girlfriend I used to confuse with a cow. She had a bell around her neck and udders the size of watermelons, and every morning at 4 am I used to milk her. A few guys offered to pay me to let them do it, so she could have been a cash cow, I suppose.

Morphine:

[mona amon]

Morphine: A powerful analgesic and narcotic - what I really need to take right now to help me forget Tyrion's definition of cash cow. ;)

Amnesia

[Pendragon]

Amnesia: Let me see, dang I used to know this one, hummmm?

Hypochondriac:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"People call me a hypochondriac, which really hurts." --Tim Vine

Vine

[Pendragon]

Vine: Tarzan's morning commute through the jungle

Cigar:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Cigar: Which sometimes is just a cigar, according to an Austrian psychologist.

Phallic symbol:

[spikepipsqueak]

Phallic symbol: pretty much any cylinder which is longer than it is wide, if you are of a certain mindset.




psychoanalyst.

[YesNo]

Psychoanalyst: Someone with a questionable view of reality who tries to fix yours.

Lawyer:

[tailor STATELY]

Lawyer: What do you have when a lawyer is buried up to his neck with concrete? ... not enough concrete.

concrete:

[Pendragon]

concrete: Chicago overshoes, for the lovers of hard-boiled crime stories

Crime:

[Pendragon]

Crime: Breaking any of a select group of rules and regulations that sometimes fail to move with the times, such as Medicinal Marijuana being legal in most states but still a crime on the Federal Level...

"Medicinal"

[Danik 2016]

Medicinal-Something meant to heal that may work or not.

Madness-

[YesNo]

Madness: A label for your state of being if it annoys others enough.

Mindset:

[Pendragon]

Mindset: The way that you think: Quia vos putatis in via, cogito ergo sum.

Latin:

[YesNo]

Latin: A language some people thought every educated person could speak until it became obvious that almost no one could speak it.

Diva:

[Pendragon]

Diva: The Lord or Lady of constant drama. You know this person, everything is a cosmic conspiracy, every error against them is a Federal Case, they are on the point of death every sniffle, and their kid striking out at the little league is the fault of the coaches!

Conspiracy:

[YesNo]

Conspiracy: A group of people who plot together to do something they supposedly shouldn’t do.

Cosmic:

[Pendragon]

Cosmic: Extremely serious, having consequences that could shake the entire universe, such as being cut off in traffic

Road Rage:

[YesNo]

Road Rage: A way to act foolish in traffic.

Serious:

[Danik 2016]

Serious:The opposite of foolish.

Cosmogony:

[Pendragon]

Cosmogony: The latest theory on how the Universe came to be, or at least the Earth/Moon relationship. In Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim are discussing the stars thus: "Jim allowed the moon couldda laid them." Makes some sense...

Theory:

[YesNo]

Theory: A tentative explanation of something believed to be accurate enough to risk telling to someone else.

Risk:

[Danik 2016]

Risk:If you take it you are a hero, if you avoid it you are a coward.

Hero:

[Pendragon]

Hero: Person possessed of bravery above and beyond. Likely enough that (above and beyond) also describes where they are at the moment, since unfortunately many heroes get killed in the process...

Bravery:

[YesNo]

Bravery: A character trait that allows some people to do stuff that others consider risky.

Cure-all:

[Pendragon]

Cure-all: Sometimes it comes with the word "quack" written before it. This is your basic snake-oil tonic that parent for years have been dosing kids with--nasty tasting stuff. Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer had "painkiller" which was described as lightning in liquid form. True story: Every kid in this area, rich, poor, or indifferent had to go through the yearly dosing of "worm medicine" which was manufactured by a dispensing pharmacy know as Holbrook's. Dr. Holbrook made the thick orange liguid which made him rich as every family in the town gave it once a year to their kids when we were in grade school on the off chance that dirt might get in our mouths and we'd swallow worm eggs. This stuff would make you pass the worms. I'm surprised I didn't pass my guts!

Therapeutic:

[Danik 2016]

Therapeutic: Everyone and everything that has a capacity to heal.

Doom:

[tailor STATELY]

Doom: Mood spelled backwards

Backward:

[Pendragon]

Backward: 1) opposite of forward 2) shy

Platitude:

[Danik 2016]

platitude: utterly boring, not to be confused with...

latitude:

[bounty]

I thought platitude was when people read or discussed plato in higher elevations?

or was it when plato's mother yelled at him when he was a kid? "and I suggest you knock off that platitude before your father gets home young man!"

latitude: someone who's always at cross purposes with my longitude!

persnickety:

[YesNo]

Persnickety: A form of fussiness that makes others snicker.

Snickerdoodle:

[Calidore]

Snickerdoodle: To laugh at another's puerile taste in art

Puerile

[Danik 2016]

Puerile: a dubious mixture of pure+ill

Tantrum:

[YesNo]

Tantrum: How a cute kid talks back even before they become a teenager.

Coconut:

[Danik 2016]

Coconut: a sweet and juicy fruit with a marvelous liquid inside that quenches the thirst.

Haloween:

[bounty]

coconuts are also modes of transportation for the knights of the round table in monty python's holy grail! they got to England by virtue of the swallows carrying them there. African swallows of course.

Halloween: the movie that did the trick of scaring me off of scary movies! or was it Friday the 13th? either way!

continuum:

[YesNo]

Continuum: A mathematical line reducible to an ordered collection of infinitesimal points. Zeno showed that if real space or time were actually like this no motion could occur.

Singularity:

[Pendragon]

Singularity: 1) The aspect of being singular such as "the singular incident of the dog in the nighttime." 2) The mathematics trying to explain the possibility of black holes, which is where the research grant to study the mathematics has gone

Mathematics:

[Danik 2016]

Mathematics: 1-the power of abstraction in numbers.2-the terror of some schoolchildren, the delight of others.

Politics:

[YesNo]

Politics: The art of standing out and becoming too well known.

Standing Out:

[Pendragon]

Standing Out: Usually putting your worst foot forward

Inside Out:

[Danik 2016]

Inside out:the way you hang clothes out to dry.

Nightmare:

[YesNo]

Nightmare: A female horse you ride at night.

Cult Classic:

[Danik 2016]

Cult Classic: A famous picture hanging in a church.

polemic:

[North Star]

Polemic: the microphone in a strip club

Wire Stripper:

[Danik 2016]

continuum: something that goes on, goes on, goes on for ever.

Pumpernickel:

[YesNo]

Wire Stripper: A tool used by an electrician to tease off the insulation covering a bare wire.

Pumpernickel: A dark, German, slow-baking bread made from rye flour which some claim, who have plenty of other food to eat, is edible only after hunger has progressed far enough.

Hunger:

[Danik 2016]

Hunger: a very basic necessity of food.

Cold:


Thanks for correcting the sequence Yes/No.:)

[Pendragon]

Cold: An illusion caused by the perceived absence of heat. For example, when the native people of Tierra del Fuego, which is darn close to Antarctica, first were discovered by European explorers they were able to go pretty much naked in the cold temperatures. After been exploited by those same Europeans they had to bundle up, as they became aware that clothes were needed for heat, despite the fact that they had always been able to go semi to totally naked. Likewise, Victor of Aveyron, a feral child from France also went naked in the cold. He played in the snow without any problem totally nude. Water temperature meant nothing to him until the people who had charge of him taught him that he needed warm water...

Heat:

[Danik 2016]

Heat:Autum in São Paulo 30º midday.

Permanent:

[YesNo]

Permanent: A state that lasts longer than we are likely to wait for it to change.

Temporary:

[Pendragon]

Temporary: Lasting but a moment, so if you have read this far, it's over

Time:

[Danik 2016]

Time: an unstoppable queue.

Moonlight:

[YesNo]

Moonlight: The light that leads your steps astray onto the path you’re meant to take.

Star:

[Pendragon]

Star: In the sky and on stage or screen, a heavenly body

Dismal:

[Danik 2016]

Dismal:sad, sad, sad and somber.

Popcorn:

[Pendragon]

Popcorn: The father of John Barley Corn

Whiskey:

[Danik 2016]

Whiskey: a bitter alcoholic drink some people love dearly.

Chocolate pudding:

[Pendragon]

Chocolate pudding: A tasty treat that is wonderful to eat even if it does look like $#*/

Bad Words:

[Danik 2016]

Bad words: words that hurt or shame someone.

Sensibility:

[YesNo]

Sensibility: The other half of one of Jane Austen’s novels apparently contrasted with something equally mysterious called “sense”.

Gitgo: (or "Get Go")

[Pendragon]

Git-go: A rather quaint way to say "start" ex) He was destined to win the race from the git-go.

Here's a local term in these mountains where VA, TN, and NC join together.

Get Shed Of:

[YesNo]

Get Shed Of: To get rid of something or someone like a tree shedding its leaves in the fall or a snake shedding its skin or your girlfriend shedding her boyfriend. There is usually an implied sense of relief involved to the one doing the shedding.

Obelisk:

[Pendragon]

Obelisk: Egyptian phallic symbol used for some reason as President Washington's Monument in DC which is odd since as far as history knows, old George was never a father. He adopted the two children of Martha Washington; and they also raised two of Martha's grandchildren...

Oblique:

[Danik 2016]

Oblique: the opposite of direct. The adjective preferred by eleven under ten politicians.

Politician:

[YesNo]

Politician: How some extroverts find employment.

Extrovert:

[Pendragon]

Extrovert: A reformed pervert, an extro-pervert

Introvert:

[YesNo]

Introvert: A form of self-abuse involving stalking oneself.

Stalking:

[Danik 2016]

Stalking: playing hide and seek with someone

Halloween:

[Pendragon]

Halloween: To many Christian churches-- Devil's Night, except to Catholic Churches-- All Souls Eve To most homeowners--Beggar's Night To parents-- Child Puking Night To Kids--Candy and Fun night

Holiday:

[Danik 2016]

Holiday:if you are employed it´s the day you get up as late as you can.

Fireworks:

[Pendragon]

Fireworks: Ariel explosions of a controlled nature, used for celebrations, rock concerts, various sports, and WWE

Fake:

[Danik 2016]

Fake:Make believe; everything that isn´t what it seems to be

Vinegar:

[YesNo]

Vinegar: If it is apple cider vinegar, pour some hot water into a cup containing a tablespoon of it and a teaspoon of honey to make a beverage.

Apple Cider:

[Pendragon]

Apple Cider: The fruit of an apple tree placed in close proximity to a female

Proximity:

[bounty]

quick interjection on apple cider vinegar. when I was little my father used to grow cucumbers. among other things, he'd cut them up into thin slices and soak them overnight in apple cider vinegar with black pepper. great snack.

okay, back to pen's proximity:

[Pendragon]

Proximity: in the vicinity of

Vicinity:

[Danik 2016]

Vicinity:Something that can be complicated if you live in a skyscraper. Sooner or later someone that lives above, below or beside you will reform his/her apartment.

Skyscraper:

[Pendragon]

Skyscraper: Abnormally tall building, especially in Dubai, where they seem to be determined to reach heaven like the folks who built the tower of Babel

Hell:

[tailor STATELY]

Hell: 1) a term that arises less often nowadays as everyone knows helium ll is unstable (as are V-X) being fleeting at best, though not speaking of helium as a state where helium ll is a superfluid; helium lll and lV being stable forms. 2) a place associated with double-hockey sticks for some reason (maybe something to do with the violence in hockey ? dunno)

Hockey:

[Danik 2016]

Hockey: a game known to its initiated.

Initiated:

[Pendragon]

Initiated: Put through a series of ridiculous tasks and humiliating situations to gain entry to an exclusive organization, which apparently has the purpose of thinking up new ways to humiliate and harass the next bunch of pledges. 2) familiar enough with sports trivia to have a loudly expressed opinion on sports that you never played, never went to see, and never watch on TV. 3) Refers also to trivia of any sort, such as Sherlock Holmes authors who try to improve on the original author!

Sherlock Holmes:

[Danik 2016]

Sherlock Holmes: He and Mrs. Mapple are my favorite detectives.

Detective story:

[Pendragon]

Detective story: A whodunit with a particular sleuth usually selected for the excitement, the drama, and because his or her name sells books

Pastiche:

[Danik 2016]

Pastiche: A dish of pasta that gives you the itches. Also an imitation of an work of art meant as a homage to its model.

Epiphany:

[Pendragon]

Epiphany: 1) Twelfth Night, January 6, commemorating the visit of the Magi to Christ 2) That sharp sudden realization that one has made a total fool of one's self 3) A blinding dose of the obvious

Obvious:

[YesNo]

Obvious: That moment in understanding when yesterday’s mystery reaches its full glory but before it is forgotten tomorrow.

Mystery:

[Danik 2016]

Mystery:That what you don´t know or think you don´t know. Also the usually obvious misteries of the mystery novels.

Mystery novels:

[Pendragon]

Mystery novels: See DETECTIVE STORY, above

Proper:

[Hawkman]

Proper: A person who makes his living by leaning against walls to keep them from falling down.

Piquant

[YesNo]

Piquant: A quant overly fascinated with the number pi.

Fascination:

[Danik 2016]

Fascination: A nation in raptures over whatever.

Whatever:

[YesNo]

Whatever: A way to exit an argument by showing indifference to the results.

Argument:

[Danik 2016]

Argument: a statement or statements intended to persuade someone.

Universal truth:

[Pendragon]

Universal truth: The local rumor on anything from God to any sort of sports playoff

Empirical Fact:

[Danik 2016]

Empirical fact: A fact related to an empire.

Pre-election polling:

[Lokasenna]

Pre-election polling: "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" - Disraeli

Quotation:

[North Star]

Quotation: A way to distort what others have said to fit your own purposes.

Perspective:

[YesNo]

Perspective: An excuse for why your opinion might legitimately differ from that of your opponent.

Opponent:

[Danik 2016]

I loved the Disraeli quotation. Very opportune.:)

Opponent: The one who consistently disagrees with you.

Democracy:

[North Star]

Democracy: A system where if you aren't in possession of any intelligence or information, you get to decide.

Election:

[tailor STATELY]

Election: A system that allows political systems to get the results they want while allowing the people who voted feel like their votes really counted.

People:

[Danik 2016]

People: a sometimes doubtfull collection of humans.

Human being:

[Pendragon]

Mark Twain is credited with the quote, which he said came from Disraeli. The line isn't in any of Disareli's works, and the quote is attributed to other people as well. Good quote anyhow, thanks to whoever actually said it first!


Human being: Top of the food chain on this planet which suggests that God has a sense of humor

God:

[Danik 2016]

God: undefinable

Universe:

[Calidore]

Universe: The big empty space inside which the Big Bang banged.

Baseball

[Pendragon]

Baseball: The only sport where nine against one is considered fair odds

Cells:

[Danik 2016]

Cells:small units of life. Also units of restraint

[Danik 2016]

Cells:small units of life. Also units of restraint (prison cells).

Prison:

[Pendragon]

Prison: A social experiment in dire need of an overhaul. When Eastern State Penitentiary was first opened the idea was to reform prisoners. Even Alcatraz had in place programs to teach prisoners a trade. Hard labor built our interstate system. I can recall the chain gangs building the I-81 through this area, and my son lives near what was the convict camp where they were housed during their work. Now prisoners do not have to work at all. Many prison trade programs are gone. The prison here in town used to work a farm where prisoners grew their food and milked the cows and tended chickens and other livestock. No more. Taxpayers are tasked with keeping the bad guys locked up. Were I in prison, being allowed out of the cell to work outside would be a godsend! At least the local jail uses prisoners to pick up trash along the highways. As I said it beats setting in a cell all day...

Prisoner:

[Danik 2016]

Pendragon: I could tell you volumes about the prison system in my country, but I´ll rather not. One of it´s worst characteristics, is that the prisons are alwaysnovercrowded and that usually prisoners that commit lighter offenses are put together with heavy offenders. When they get out of prison they are full blown criminals. So much for prisoner reform.

Prisoner: A person locked in a cell as a punishment for disobeying the law of the country. Also someone who is confined or limited by some circunstance or condition.

Law:

[Pendragon]

Law: The things most convenient to make illegal by whomsoever is in power at the moment. While most agree on basic crime: murder, rape, assault and battery, theft, etc. There are so many levels with different punishments that the system breaks down. True Story: About three years back, four people lured my cousin Stevie to a remote house where they shot and killed him. Not one of the four even received a life sentence. This was for premeditated murder. One the other hand a spur of the moment, opportunity murder by an ex-con had an extra crime added to ensure him the death penalty. You cannot live with the law nor can society even exist without it. It's a dammed if you do and dammed if you don't lawyer fueled mess!

Lawyer:

[Danik 2016]

Lawyer:a professional who interpretes and practices law.

Judgment:

[Pendragon]

Judgment: 1) To assess another according to one's own standards. 2) Prejudice shined up a bit 3) To determine the guilt or innocence of an accused criminal

Allegedly:

[Danik 2016]

.....

[Danik 2016]

Allegedly: something that is supposed but not proven.

Disarmament:

[Pendragon]

Disarmament: Descriptive of the damage to the statue of Venus de Milo

Briefcase:

[Danik 2016]

Briefcase: a very brief case

Argonaut:

[tailor STATELY]

Argonaut: Kara In-Ze

cryogenics:

[Pendragon]

cryogenics: A delusion that people can be flash frozen and later revived when a cure for their illness has been discovered. Some even believe that a head can be frozen and the brain saved to put into a cloned body at some future point. Both of these scenarios happen because people refuse to accept that death comes to us all...

By the way: Briefcase: When the Judge, Lawyers, and Jury simply form a lynching party

Lynching:

[Danik 2016]

Thanks, Pendragon, I didn´t know that interpretation of "Briefcase".

Lynching: Something that is going on to much in every sense in the whole world.Disarmament might help and I`m not meaning the loss of arms of the Venus de Milo.

Impeachment:

[Calidore]

Cryogenics: The science of determining why some people are weepier than others.

Impeachment: The substitution of nectarines for people who don't like fuzz.

Service

[Danik 2016]

I loved the definition of cryogenics. I wonder if there are laughtergenics too.

Service:slices of served ice. Also some institutions that usually fail to attend the needs of the public.

Citizen:

[Pendragon]

Citizen: Person with the unlikely name of John Q Citizen who is supposed to represent what everyday people usually want. The problem is that everyone has a personal opinion and JQC can go soap a rope

Personal:

[Danik 2016]

Personal:directly related to or coming from someone.

Event:

[Calidore]

Event: To unload one's frustrations via electronic means.

Superstition

[Danik 2016]

Superstition: the belief that certain banal ocurrences, things or creatures can have a bad influence on your life, like Friday 13, passing under a ladder, and so on.

Cosmology:

[Pendragon]

Hey Danik, here where I live in Virginia it is not only Friday the 13th but also the night of the full moon... Weirdness forecast and expected!


Cosmology: The study of dubious beginnings and uncharted endings disguised (thinly) as Science


Dubious:

[Danik 2016]

In Brazil we have quite an extense list of superstitions, Pendragon.But what baffled me when I was in New York was the absence of the 13th floor in the buildings. By the way, our new president took office yesterday so to avoid Friday the13th.
The night of the full moon is the night when men turn into werewolves...

Dubious:Everything you are not too sure of.

Werewolf:

[Pendragon]

Werewolf: One who becomes a wolf during full moons as opposed to those who are wolves ever bloody day

Opposed:

[Pendragon]

Werewolf: One who becomes a wolf during full moons as opposed to those who are wolves ever bloody day

Opposed:

[Danik 2016]

Opposed: against. Opposed is the opposed of being in consonance with something or someone.

Criteria:

[Calidore]

Criteria: Weep harder.

Pizzeria

[Hawkman]

Pizzeria: a public urinal.

Cantankerous:

[Pendragon]

Cantankerous: Hillbilly term for "constantly pissed off"

Hillbilly:

[Danik 2016]

Hillbilly: A guy called billy who lives on a hill.

Rebellious:

[Hawkman]

Rebellious: the state of having a chronic stomach condition.

Incontinent

[Danik 2016]

Incontinent-A continentless creature. Probably born on an island.

Landrower:

[Pendragon]

Landrower: Misspelled word that is possibly meant to be "Land rover" which is an explorer's main duty off road vehicle, or maybe "Land owner" which is a person that actually believe he own his own land until the Government takes it away on any pretext (What can I say, my Great-Grandfather was a full-blood member of the Cherokee Nation and we definitely know about Governments stealing land. Remember the Trail of Tears?) Or maybe it is spelled correctly, and means a guy trying to row a boat on land, who knows?! :D

Bellicose:

[Danik 2016]

I stand corrected, Pendragon, Land rover. No spelling memory.:( I didn´t mean put any one rowing a boat on land :D neither was I addressing the delicate issue of land owning.

Bellicose:Provocative people who love starting a row.

War:

[Pendragon]

War: Extreme measures taken by opposing nations which could probably been solved over a couple of beers...

Couple:

[Danik 2016]

Couple-1-A few.2- A pair.

Government:

[YesNo]

Government: A group of people who administer the rules for living or doing business in a certain location.

Rules:

[Danik 2016]

Comment on "Government": Sometimes a group of people who cheat or overturn the rules for living or doing business in a certain location.

Rules: certain paradigms that are meant to be obeyed but which are often circunvented or ignored.

Obedience:

[Pendragon]

Obedience: Unquestioned compliance with a set of rules and regulations often for monetary gain or religious fulfillment. 2) The blind leading the blind

Contrary:

[YesNo]

Contrary: Measures taken to make sure someone who is the boss of you knows how things could be different.

Boss of me:

[Danik 2016]

Boss of me: I myself. :D. Don´t like the idea of having other bosses, but usually one cannot help it.

Liberty:

[tailor STATELY]

Liberty - Part of the divine triplet: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Equality:

[Calidore]

Equality: The value of a piece of electronically transmitted writing.

Milkshake

[Danik 2016]

Milkshake- a cup of milk trying to dance samba.

Fraternity-

[YesNo]

Fraternity: A sorority for males.

Bedevilment:

[Danik 2016]

Bedevilment:

[Danik 2016]

Bedevilment: to poke the wild beast with a short stick.

Saintly:

[YesNo]

Saintly: Getting out of God’s way to let him take care of one’s problems as he sees fit rather than doing what most of us do and try to fix our problems ourselves.

Problem:

[Danik 2016]

I like this definition of saintly :)

Problem: 1- Some number arrangments that lead to other number arrangments 2-Something that seems to be too complicate to solve.

Solution:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Solution: something old people put their dentures in at night before going to sleep.

Guys, those of you who can't seem to refrain from disgorging your religious beliefs here, could I ask in the interests of everyone getting along that you please cease and desist? Thank you.

Teeth:

[Danik 2016]

Teeth: natural devices used to chew and to bite

Claws:

[Pendragon]

Claws: Teeth located on the hands and feet, or paws

Vivisection:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Vivisection: The section of any club or restaurant reserved for Vivian Campbell, guitarist for Whitesnake and Def Leppard.

Amplifier:

[Danik 2016]

Amplifier: a big fire!

Beetroots:

[tailor STATELY]

Beetroots: The troots of a bee... not unlike the quarters of a hind.

Rock:

[Danik 2016]

Rock:You hear it, you see it you dance it, you stand on it, you put it in your drinks, you buy things with it...

Polymerization:

[Calidore]

Polymerization:. The process by which a parrot remembers what it hears for the purpose of mimicking it later.

Handstand

[Danik 2016]

Lol! That´s a good one!
Handstand:A special stand for hands.

Praseodymium:

[Pendragon]

Praseodymium: Prey-see-oh-dim-ee-uhm chant used to find rare earth elements that form green salts

Befuddled:

[Danik 2016]

Befuddled: A not so rare sort of huddled beef.

Constitutional: