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Intrainterminable

adjective. To describe a dog obedience course that seems endless, and that yields few results.


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limey gor blimey

what a wonderful old cockney expression. i have not heard this one in years. i guess the best stab at a translation is --"what the eff is that eight legged bugger floating around in me warm as piss glass o' ale?"
rumor has it that this particular variation of the archaic interrogative originated with the poet keats, after a night of pub crawling with shelley and byron--s6



unbridled radish of quaaludes---i realize that this is more than one word but as long as we are talking keats , i wonder if anyone can explicate this great, if archaic, expression.





 

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unbridled radish of quaaludes-
It is the descriptive term for a bouquet of several ( at least 7) samples of the narcotic Quaaludes held in both hands balanced delicately at the tips of the index through little fingers in an attempt to convey them to the mouth while the person struggles with the handcuffs on his or her wrists .

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Harmidvarmit

Harmidvarmit is an old pirate word to describe an enemy, armed with a knife or other weapon, who is about to attack: "Aarrrrhh, there was this harmidvarmit all drunk with rum who made quick to run me through with his blade, but I blasted the scurvy knave first with me foul breath and struck 'im dead. Aaarhhh"


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Plebovian

Plebovian is a combination of two words, plebian and bovine. A plebovian therefore, is a common cow. This word can be used to literally describe a common brown cow, as opposed to a Holstein or Guernsey, or the word can be used as an insult, as in : "Get her. She's so plebovian."


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rhorbank

an obscure middle earth river that empties into the sea of ruhn. the actual spelling should be ruhnbank but tolkien's wife, edith, got a little frisky while serving him high tea one evening. she blew in his ear and caused him to spill his cuppa on the manuscript map of miogar. ruhnbank was blotted into rhorbank because in the intervening 20 minutes the tea stain dried--s6


Amodilan--another place name
 
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Posomously

An opposum who has distinguished himself/herself by an act of valor, but dies before a medal is awarded, receives the award posomously.

Amodilan--another place name

Amodilan is a suburb of Kalamazoo, Michigan and is known as the shoe horn capital of the world.


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Barfumagnanomous
In the industrial sector of Paris, this word is used by highly regarded scent testers paid handsomely to predict the success of newly concocted eau da parfume's. It signals the death of a career for mis fortunate chemists- it means the scent of this sample will cause upchucking.

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Gloriandering is an unusual phenomenon. It refers to the action of men who cheat on their wives or girlfriends with another woman named Gloria. Conversely, women who cheat on their husbands or boyfriends with a guy named Phil, have committed an act of Philandering.

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gloriamandering

like gerrymandering, gloriamandering was invented by founding father elbridge gerry. instead of re-defining electoral voting districts gloriamandering involves redefining caroling districts, so that carolers from one ethnic district cannot carol in another ethnic district. this way the czechs keep "good king wenceslaus", the mexicans keep 'humildes peregrinos", the brits keep "here we go a wassailing and the germans keep "silent night" in their respective districts. since gerry's death the boundaries have faded and we have a melting pot of caroling mostly devolving into red nosed reindeer and choruses of "gloria gloria gloria, gallorrr-or-or-or-yeeeha"--s6

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azmadtrig

The state of hyper-fury achieved when trying to understand azimuths in a college trig. class. The professor defined an azimuth as an arc of the horizon measured between a fixed point (as true north) and the vertical circle passing through the center of an object usually in astronomy and navigation clockwise from the north point through 360 degrees. (Feel the fury yet?)

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Wonkilation

Wonkilation occurs when a deboned chicken (miraculously brought back to life) attempts to walk and discovers that his limbs have gone all wonky.

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tungmental

fortunately tungmental is now considered an archaic usgae. it was coined in the early days of the century to describe victims of the 1908 tunguska blast. although only primitive tribesman many became severely depressed and disoriented thanks to the shock suffered. in the days after the blast the local reindeer stopped giving milk. so, in effect the term applies to reindeer as well as human inhabitants of the tungus river district in the first 3 decades of the 20th century. it is believed that leonid kulik first put the word in print in 1927 although grumblings of "my rendeer is tungmental" were heard in siberia lonfg before 1927.


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Forbfol

Forbfol was a game popular in the 18th century among the bored French aristocracy, and was a type of croquet game that substituted croquet balls with the heads of peasants. This game, not surprisingly, fell out of favor after the revolution.


phisterize
 

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phisterize tr. v. 1. To coat with phisterine. 2. To confer the qualities of the alchemist Adolph Phister upon another.

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phisterine

Phisterine is a commercial non-toxic product used as a protective coating to prevent rusting as a result of canine urine. It is used mainly on the lower surfaces of fire hydrants, lamp posts and trees.


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belformer
This is the term used in the live television directing profession. When the stage director needs the performer to go longer than scheduled they use both hands in a motion starting in the upper center of their chest and moving outward. As this is the same motion made by a sculptor of bells, they call said person a belformer.

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Ostentupendous

To be ostentupendous, is to be ostentatiously stupendous, as in "the high-wire act, consisting of a naked juggler wearing nothing but a live python, was absolutely ostentupendous."


myrdentia
 

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myrdentia n. The marks made by the gnawing of certain species of ants.

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vendisism iz vendoziz, right?

Oh, it isn't a phrase, it's a word. Never mind. My apologies. Carry on.