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:
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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:
Unctuous: oily, insincere, when a politician shakes your hand, smiles at you and tells you how much he admires you.
Fatuous:
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:
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:
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:
Relief: When a tree grows its foliage back in Spring.
Foliage:
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:
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:
Satori: zeninabhagavadgita
Siri:
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:
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.
Unfathomable: Dry land
Knots
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
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:
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.
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:
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:
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:
Doohicky: Stuck between doodad and thingamajig.
chav:
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:
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:
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:
Flaccid: Limp, floppy, flimsy, infirm. Note that Donald Trump is both a turgid and a flaccid politician at the same time.
Thrust:
Thrust: To push violently,
Ipso Facto:
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
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:
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:
Space: A new frontier lying between one ear and the other.
More Then Likely:
More Than Likely: Lovely
Splendiferous
Splendiferous: Adding unneeded letters to "splendid" and getting the same meaning, pompously stating that things are fine.
Jawbreaker:
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.
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:
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.
Tease: The way a woman with cavernous visible cleavage daintily pulls her skirt down after crossing her legs upon sitting down.
Cavernous:
Cavernous: I once dated a girl who was cavernous. Mind you, her previous boyfriend was a power forward.
Anaconda:
Anaconda: The world's largest, but not longest, snake from the Amazon, which isn't Facebook postings notwithstanding, in Africa..
Facebook:
Facebook: Most significant invention since the heretics fork, the difference being, of course, the pleasure given by the heretics fork.
Surreptitious:
Surreptitious: Jawbreaker word for "sneaky"
Aficionado:
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.")
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: