Litnet's version of Devil's dictionary

Drawl: The comforting, folksy sound y'all make when ya talk.

Vernacular:

Vernacular: In locally understandable lingo, not necessarily understood by those in other regions. For example, British people know why "Bob's your uncle." and here is SW Virginia we know what "cutting your foot" means.

Village Idiot:

Village Idiot: The person who's 'special' either due to disability or choice. Every village has one. Just a step away from being the Village Genius or Holy Fool.

Holy Fool:

Holy Fool: That person in any given village who constantly reminds us of how wicked we really are by being the epitome of good

Wicked:

Wicked: An adjective that covers a wide spectrum of moral quality going from the undesirably bad to the can’t-get-enough-of-it good and often related to how wicked you think you are.

Homeless:

Homeless: "And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." Matthew 8:20

Reference:

Reference: Look up the meaning of some obscure word or phrase to to use a term so archaic that people have to look it up

Pawpaw:

Pawpaw: A dog-dog fistbump

Whisker

Whisker: Traditionalist baker who likes to whip things up by hand rather than use gadgets.

Prolific

Prolific: Producing a lot. This isn't always a good thing, Donald Trump is a prolific speaker...

fact:

Fact: An assumption that comes out of nowhere and sometimes vanishes back into nowhere.

Ocean:

Ocean: The source of all life on earth... and now hostile to 90% of it. That says a lot, really.

Apotheosis:

Apotheosis: The process of becoming divine which doesn’t make sense unless one was divine to begin with and didn’t know it.

Epistemology:

Epistemology: the study of the nature and scope of knowledge, a branch of Philosophy which which seems to have gradually hijacked the whole of Philosophy, throwing 'wisdom' out the window.

Defenestrate:

Defenestrate: A form of window abuse where someone is thrown out of it.

Abuse: