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jacobsen
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I think we've had this one before. First poster gives a word, and the next has to provide a definition, and then post another word.
I shall begin withe the example Ardent
Describes my car after I backed out of the driveway and into a tree.
New word: Discombobulate
[Title edit, DT, Circus Host] [ 17. August 2015, 18:53: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
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Oscar the Grouch
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An injury usually sustained by someone boogying on down too violently. More frequently found in the 1970's, especially at Studio 54.
Supralapsarian
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Hedgehog
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quote: Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch: Supralapsarian
Adj. descriptive of where a cat prefers to sit (on the lap).
epigone
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Sipech
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epigone - the disappearing of a small girl
Infundibular
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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Infundibular (n) Holding money in your mouth (mandible)
sasquatch
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Ariel
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Sasquatch is a not particularly well-known plant of the gourd family which produces large fruit covered in matted fibre that looks like hair.
Cursive
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Sipech
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Cursive - an elaborate and rather beautiful form of swearing
perissology
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LeRoc
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quote: Sipech: perissology
The war strategy of taking out enemy submarines by urinating down their periscopes.
Ballistics
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Adam.
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Ballistics - the art of making linearly ordered catalogs of ovine argot.
fulminate
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Brenda Clough
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An extremely ample surfacing for kitchen counters.
Supernal.
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no prophet's flag is set so...
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fulminate
An expression used to beg something from someone else's lunch. "Full mine ate (can I have some of your's).
tectonic [ 18. August 2015, 13:47: Message edited by: no prophet's flag is set so... ]
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Piglet
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I think we've had a cross-post, so I'll go with BC's
supernal adj. describing premium quality anise-flavoured liqueur.
Now for No Prophet's tectonic
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kingsfold
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Pick-me -up for computer geeks.
taradiddle
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Hedgehog
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quote: Originally posted by kingsfold: taradiddle
A Gone With The Wind themed walking tour.
apoplexy
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balaam
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Father's dictionary.
cockchafer
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Sipech
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bombazine - lifestyle hints and tips for the more discerning jihadi.
Miargyrite
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Dafyd
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The belief that Britian should cease to govern the islands known as the Malvinas.
incarnadine
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Piglet
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Incarnadine prop. n. the lady in the sat-nav machine. Who knew she was called Nadine?
perspicacity
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Oscar the Grouch
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A school of architecture, which aims to create entire communities from acrylic resins.
Entomology
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Piglet
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entomology, n. the study of the innards of cats
prevaricate
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Sipech
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Prestidigitation - the Calvinist method for counting on your fingers
Tessellate
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jacobsen
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Miss D'Urberville's habit of tardiness.
Embrocation [ 20. August 2015, 10:58: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
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Wet Kipper
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Embrocation - when someone from Edinburgh stays at home for their holidays
Metabolism
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jrw
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Metabolism - New album from Ozzy Osbourne (now descended into cannibalism).
Imbroglio
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Sipech
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Imbroglio - the peculiarly specific problem of falling in love with Neighbours stars of the early 90s.
Subjunctive
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L'organist
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Subjunctive - decluttered stuff that can't be given to a charity shop.
Flotsam
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Piglet
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subjunctive adj. the word used to describe the stuff at the very bottom of the rubbish-heap
intercalary
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jacobsen
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Whoops - we have a cross post.
Flotsam- a fucking lot of the same bloody stuff.
Intercalary - Those wonderful foods, like chocolate, which fall into the cracks between calories, and therefore have none whatsoever.
Polyandry
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Pia
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Polyandry (rhetorical device): The use of multiple and repeated conjunctions, as in the following example:
"I went to the fair, and I took my wife, and my daughter, and my sons, and my daughters-in-law, and my grandchildren, and my grandchildren's friends, and my grandchildren's friends' dog, and my grandchildren's friends' dog's ball, and it rained."
Twerk
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Piglet
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twerk n a very silly person; the result of crossing a twit with a berk.
incandescent
PS Sorry for the cross-post - I posted without noticing.
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Sioni Sais
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Incandescent To go downwards while in a metal cylinder.
Mercurial
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(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Sipech
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Mercurial - camper than a sequined unicorn doing a Christopher Biggins impression.
Apocalyptic
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L'organist
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Apocalyptic the 'bleed' marks of lipstick into the puckers around the mouth of an elderly smoker
polyethylene
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St. Gwladys
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Polyethylene: Diet supplement for overweight female parrots
CREPUSCULAR
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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Crepuscular: body builders with so much muscle development so as to be creepy.
Refulgent
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Piglet
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refulgent n. the waiter at posh wedding receptions who re-fills your glass.
Palaeolithic
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Hedgehog
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quote: Originally posted by Piglet: Palaeolithic
adj. describing the viewpoints of Sarah Palin.
rubescent
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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rubescent: A developmental stage in the life of redheads.
fey [ 22. August 2015, 16:39: Message edited by: Amanda B. Reckondwythe ]
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Adam.
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fey: an attempt at a sea journey without adequate means of propulsion, or a foray minus the oar.
pietistic
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Dafyd
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Pietistic - talented in making meals out of stodgy pastry and preserved fruit.
quantum [ 23. August 2015, 18:23: Message edited by: Dafyd ]
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Piglet
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quantum n. the number of stomachs in any creature
boomerang
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Albertus
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You were telephoned by someone born between 1945 and 1965.
Lubricate
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Wet Kipper
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<interuption> quote: Originally posted by Piglet:
PS Sorry for the cross-post - I posted without noticing.
does that make you a twerk ?
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Piglet
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Very likely.
Lubricate n. a small clay brick used in the construction of outdoor lavatories
syncopation
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Dafyd
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Discombobulation The act of yelling 'Robin Gibb' for no apparent reason.
Corbel
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Leorning Cniht
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Corbel The burbling produced by a prospective Labour leader when asked to condemn the acts of terrorists
Metathesis
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Sipech
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Metathesis - verb. The past tense of meetathesis; that feeling of pride, relief and nervousness when your dissertation is printed and bound.
Cataphatic
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