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L'organist
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cataphatic descriptive of overweight domestic moggie.
pizzicato
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Brenda Clough
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The mark left on a pizza when a cat sits on it.
Damascene.
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Piglet
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damascene interj. a mild expletive used by actors when one of the stage-flats falls on them.
gerrymander
PS Leorning Cniht - ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Sipech
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gerrymander - a type of duck that looks uncannily like a Thunderbirds puppet.
perspicacity
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Piglet
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perspicacity n. one's ability to sweat.
dipsomaniac
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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jacobsen
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One whose OCT manifests as continually dipping one toe elegantly in the water without actually taking the plunge. Sufferers are notable for a single clean if wrinkled toe.
Alimentary
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Brenda Clough
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What Sherlock Holmes replies, when Watson asks him what he wants the bicarbonate of soda for.
Supernaular.
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Sipech
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Think this thread may have gone into limbo as Supernaular doesn't seem to be a real word. Let's see if we can make it one by defining it as:
An adjective describing actions done when one is overly tired.
Next one: ungulate
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L'organist
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ungulate v to rid a place, usually a small town, of predatory seabirds of the family Laurus
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Leorning Cniht
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exculpate A high-class meat paste made from brains.
Psephologist
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Psephologist: a doctor who specializes in helping people with issues regarding Greek penmanship.
Phlegmatic
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jacobsen
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My mum has a twitchy leg.
umbrageous
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Sipech
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umbrageous - an adjective to describe an unnecessary over reaction to a scare article in the Daily Mail.
pizzicato
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Dafyd
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pizzicato Italian nouvelle cuisine.
pelagian
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L'organist
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pelagian a scattering of OAPs knocked off their feet, usually by cyclists
lubricious
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jrw
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"Lubriscious", thought Fido, as he sat and watched his master prepare his juicy dogmeat in gravy. His master couldn't help thinking the same thing.
Japonica
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jrw
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Sorry, that should have been lubricious.
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Piglet
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japonica, n. an oriental burglar.
plutonium
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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jacobsen
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Disney's hound dog drops one.
Exculpate
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Exculpate: to burp while eating foie gras.
Prattle
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Dafyd
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Prattle Anything that your baby has got hold of and which will provoke upset if taken away, and which really ought not to go in their mouth.
Legerdemain
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jacobsen
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French for hand protector.
Gumswizzled
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L'organist
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Gumswizzled colloquial expression to describe one foaming at the mouth, "he/she was fair gumswizzled"
Bladderwrack
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Piglet
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bladderwrack n. an ancient and particularly unpleasant instrument of torture
proclivity
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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jacobsen
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A leaning to favouritism towards people called Clive.
Inveterate
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
A leaning to favouritism towards people called Clive.
Inveterate
To fill a room with animal doctors.
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Might as well ask the bloody cat.
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Sipech
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Deduplicate - the killing of one half of Jedward.
Stridulation
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jacobsen
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Stridulate - To walk with a rolling gait.
bifurcate
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L'organist
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birfurcate n: a stole or scarf made from the pelts of two cats.
masticate
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Dal Segno
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masticate - edible glue
contrariwise
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Hedgehog
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contrariwise: the opposite of wise; injudicious; imprudent.
ravioli
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jacobsen
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Ravioli
The viola section of the orchestra whooping it up in the pub.
Incandescent
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L'organist
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Incandescent n a person of native South American lineage
mouldwarp
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Signaller
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mouldwarp: tunnelling faster than the speed of light.
Philatelist
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jacobsen
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Discombobulate v - The act of debobbling the woolly pills from a sweater long after it should have been done.
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Sipech
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Inveterate - the state of being that a dog is in, as it wets itself upon seeing the radar-dish collar of doom.
Fungible
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jacobsen
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Fungible The entrails of a frivolous chicken
Excoriate
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L'organist
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excoriate vthe removing of the central core from apples or pears prior to baking; may also be used in relation to other foods, such as kidneys.
mulch
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Sioni Sais
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Mulch: The unfortunate combination of belching when much too full.
distraint
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Sipech
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distraint - a slang term meaning "This is not the scheduled form of public transport that we intended to use. We may need to wait for a later one."
blatherskite
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jacobsen
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Blat-her-skite - Sod the woman, she's off on the gossip trail again.
Hockett
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Baptist Trainfan
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{Not part of the game ... but would you believe that I actually used the word 'blatherskite' in church the Sunday before last, with explanation of course. I'd never used it before in my life!)
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Hedgehog
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Hockett: A means of getting quick cash in exchange for an item, while still retaining the ability to redeem that item later.
internuncio
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Sipech
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internuncio - A person who keeps adding unnecessary syllables into the mid-de-didle of their words.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Nefarious - the mendacious act of a Scotsman giving directions to an English person. Derived from the expression "It's nae far".
Phylactery
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jacobsen
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A substance which, when swallowed, results in imperatively speedy action.
Effervescence
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L'organist
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effervescence n an outbreak of foul language when someone releases noxious bodily gas in a crowded lift.
protuberance
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Brenda Clough
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A dog washer so expert that she can make the dog wag and enjoy his bath.
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