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As in "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." Indeed. Behold the Brass Monkey of Stanthorpe, Queensland, a place known for its "brass monkey weather," complete with set of balls. And now you know why I love the Aussies. ;-)
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Huevos:
Huevos: What one needs to add to “rancheros” to make breakfast at a Mexican restaurant.
Breakfast:
Breakfast: Most important meal of the day, and delicious enough to be eaten at any time
Stuffed Shirt:
Stuffed Shirt: A men's upper garment, filled with an empty blowhard and garnished with a sprig of parsley
The Holiday season:
The holiday season: Not sure Santa would appreciate being called a stuffed shirt, but given his storied girth, he am one.
Yule:
Yule: Christmas time contraction for "you will." "Bubba, if yule get thet log off'n th' truck, I'll git a far started."
Bubba:
Bubba: A colloquial way of referring to someone as a 'customer' or 'fella', especially if he ain't too smart in the head, i.e., "Listen, bubba, you and me need to a get a few things straight." Also, bubbas tend to speak in a slow Southern manner, be portly, and enjoy beer, guns and incest. Or so I've heard.
Y'all:
Y'all: All inclusive Southern Greeting. And Ty old boy, I am Southern, fat, a gun owner, but I do not drink. And if it's incest you're after don't look in Virginia, that is a West, by-God Virginia problem! Or so I have heard.
Toff:
Toff: Someone so well-dressed and aristocratic looking that he gets noticed and then scorned for being better that everyone else, which he is, but that is beside the point.
Aristocratic:
Aristocratic: Here in SW Virginia, stuck up or acting beyond your raising, fake; such as a person who grew up like myself on the wrong side of the tracks who suddenly acts like her or she was born in the Hampton's.
Drawl:
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:
Abuse: To act in a manner found injurious to me personally, which may or may not include such things as prejudice, stereotyping, general police procedures, laws, courts, neighbors, etc.
Ascertain:
Ascertain: To be positive about the quality of another's derriere.
Plentitude
Plenitude: Aristocratic for "lots"
super-amalgamated:
Super-amalgamated: A more expensive form of amalgamate.
Expensive:
Expensive: The cost of becoming more expansive.
Expunge:
Expunge: To use white-out on juvenile records. The charges are still there and white-out will come off, as many a defendant has found in court when this supposedly "expunged" record is still used against them
juvenile:
Juvenile: A fancy word for a child in a legal context and when it is used you hope it is not your child. It can also be used to describe an adult whom one would like to portray as acting like a child who could use some punishment.
Fancy:
Fancy: 1) Posh 2) to like really well
Here's you a word I found in a new Sherlock Holmes collection.
Defenestrated:
Defenestrated: Thrown out the window by a person with an excellent vocabulary.
Pious:
Pious: General demeanor of a Sunday congregation in some churches after having been out carousing on Friday and Saturday night. Designated by enthusiastic precipitation in songs, responsive Bible reading, and wide-eyed following of the sermon, perhaps with amens and applause.
Ululation:
Ululation: A word the very sound of which makes one suspect that the people involved are either doing or having something done to them that is particularly nasty.
Nasty:
Nasty: Any visual, audible, aroma, taste, or feel of something that makes you run for something to either throw up in, smash whatever is making the noise, open a window and turn on a fan, spit into the trashcan, or to jump in a hot shower.
Ululation: Howling Heh!
Anthropomorphous:
Anthropomorphous: A view that other forms of consciousness are similar to our own and what it’s like to be them isn’t too different from what it’s like to be us.
hijack:
Hijack: The most common response to "Hi, Jill."
Habanero
Habanero: Spanish for "Holy Moses! This thing is Hot!!!"
Despondent: