Gobsmacked: Lies between dumbstruck and stupefied in the list of normal reactions to political speeches.
Psychical:
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Gobsmacked: Lies between dumbstruck and stupefied in the list of normal reactions to political speeches.
Psychical:
Psychical: possessing a supernatural ability to con people.
Maverick:
Maverick: The name a mad, anti-social loner charitably gives himself.
Prudence:
Prudence: A virtue associated with wisdom, sagacity and reasonable foresight when the choices made turned out to be right and stupidity otherwise.
Jack-o-lantern
Jack-o-lantern: Carved pumpkins that seem to sprout everywhere during the Halloween season. Beware of them! You may remember what happened to Ichabod Crane!
Witch:
Witch: The female version of a wizard with a long history of martyrdom both at the stake and in their portrayal in the movies. They usually have black cats and anti-gravity brooms.
Black Cat:
Black Cat: Felicia Hardy, a sexy super-heroine in the Spiderman comics who was once a crook and seems to have the ability to give others bad luck.
Riff Raff:
Riffraff is formally defined as people who are not respectable. Rabble. Rubbish. In other words, folk wot know 'ow to 'ave a good time whilst the respectable folk sit there with a broom 'andle parked up their bum.
Bawdy:
Bawdy: Lewd, crude and hopefully nude.
Dracula:
Dracula: Still Bestselling Book by Bram Stoker that may or may not be based on Vlad Țepeș Dracula, who was called "the impaler"
Frankenstein:
Frankenstein: An attempt to make a human being without resorting to sexual reproduction. It is unclear why any male in his right mind would want to do something like this.
Right Mind:
Right Mind: A mental frame which the blinkered, the unthinking, and the mad frequently claim to occupy.
Morbidity:
That quality of an Item on ebay that makes you bid above your limit.
Spoonerism
Spoonerism: To wix your mords up so badly, you don't even snow what you're trying to kay!
Off Plum.
Off Plum. Well, now, if it were 'off plumb' I'd say it means 'not vertical.' An off plum, of the other hand, is undoubtedly a plum wot's spoiled. Then there's Eve Plumb, who played Jan on the Brady Bunch. I reckon she's pretty off by now.
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