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Started by Swatopluk, September 23, 2007, 11:11:30 AM

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Aphos

songjarm:  forcing surrender by playing obnoxious loud music



untrovold
--The topologist formerly known as Poincare's Stepchild--

Sibling DavidH

untrovold - not trovold, i.e. covered with a foul-smelling, sticky substance.

crint

Swatopluk

crint - a type of rock that looks like flintstone but turns to fine powder when hitting hard objects. Some believe that the Neanderthals were wiped out when they bought a large amount of 'flint' weapons at a bargain price from our ancestors just before the final war started.

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zendubious
Knurrhähne sind eßbar aber empfehlen würde ich das nicht unbedingt.
The aspitriglos is edible though I do not actually recommend it.

Opsa

zendubious- having reached a zen state through the use of recreational drugs.

example: After smoking a "dubie", Dobie was said to have become zendubious.


tsuboffon

pieces o nine

tsuboffon  noun An ornamental sword guard in the shape of (or, more rarely, embellished with the feathers of) the Numidian Crane.






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koheghitient  /ˌkoʊəˈfɪʃ(ə)nt/
"If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
--Marquise de Sevigne, February 11, 1677

Swatopluk

koheghitient  /ˌkoʊəˈfɪʃ(ə)nt/

1. holding together by the Velcro principle
2. infatuated with the book Ecclesiastes (Kohelet)
3. living according to the traditional rules of the Himalayan Kohe Ghi people

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somnamfool
Knurrhähne sind eßbar aber empfehlen würde ich das nicht unbedingt.
The aspitriglos is edible though I do not actually recommend it.

Opsa

somnamfool- someone who has been slipped a mickey.


perfletulance

Sibling DavidH

perfletulance - noun

The condition of universal and all-pervading flatulence.

voletrammel


BTW Pieces you did a sneaky there with /ˌkoʊəˈfɪʃ(ə)nt/

Swatopluk

voletrammel - the distinctive sounds made by little rodents below the earth or snow cover. Predators (like owls or foxes) use it to locate them.
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voturb
Knurrhähne sind eßbar aber empfehlen würde ich das nicht unbedingt.
The aspitriglos is edible though I do not actually recommend it.

Opsa

voturb- civil disobedience at the polling place.

minisculature

Swatopluk

minisculature
1. the invasion of  the privacy of microbes
2. sculptures on the nano-scale, e.g. the copy of Michelangelo's David made with just 25000 gold atoms
3. a new trend in body art: mosaique priercings

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solemnotropy
Knurrhähne sind eßbar aber empfehlen würde ich das nicht unbedingt.
The aspitriglos is edible though I do not actually recommend it.

pieces o nine

solemnotropy  when a lecture on thermodynamic entropy goes on for too long on an early a Friday afternoon in early summer, so that students find themselves fighting loss of units of energy offset by increase in units of temperature.




beighrumb
"If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
--Marquise de Sevigne, February 11, 1677

Sibling DavidH

beighrumb

1. A village on the Lleyn peninsula, one of the Irish settlements of the 5th Century.

2. An alcoholic liquid originating from that village.   Too vile to drink; the locals wipe it on their faces after shaving.

ghoti    /ˈfɪʃ/
Pieces, you've got me at it now!




pieces o nine

ghoti    /ˈfɪʃ/
Ceremonial male garment worn in certain Polynesian islands; similar to a dhoti, but with a scale pattern incorporated into the tartan.




phairweall





"If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
--Marquise de Sevigne, February 11, 1677

Sibling DavidH

phairweall
a wailing cry uttered by drunken Irishmen as they fall off the cliffs on the way home from the bheughsr.

phourdjerie