BS: Daffy definitions

Subject: BS: Daffy definitions
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 05:30 AM

I was looking for a dictionary definition of a 'hollow victory' when I came up with
this , I just love the second example given in the adjective category. Brought back good memories for me anyway!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Dead Horse
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 05:46 AM

Of course the Victory was hollow. How else would they have got all them sailors inside it, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 05:52 AM

Go and stand in the corner you nautical boy!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: gnu
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 05:54 AM

I thought all sex was hallowed.

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 06:56 AM

Hallow is it me you're looking for? ♪♫
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Flash Company
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 07:18 AM

Recently discovered the derivations for 'Feisty' are either American
'fist' meaning a small agressive dog or Middle English 'fisten' to break wind.
The next time someone describes a girl as 'feisty' I am going to ask 'Oh, does she bite your legs or fart a lot?'

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: mack/misophist
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 10:32 AM

The explanation of feisty that I saw linked the 2 senses by claiming that dog fanciers in the middle ages thought that farting a lot meant that a dog had 'spirit'.

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 10:46 AM

FC, couldn't she do both?

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 11:07 AM

Women keep boasting how good they are at 'multi-tasking' !!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 11:33 AM

"mistress"....something between 'mister' and 'mattress' ♀

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 04:13 AM

Never marry your mistress, you just create a vacancy....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 05:23 AM

"Sympathy" ... Something you find between shit and syphilis in a dictionary!
G. ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Flash Company
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 09:52 AM

Liz.... The Alex cartoon in the Telegraph the other day had the French student in bed with a girl who was insisting that he marry someone else so that she could be a proper mistress and not just a girl-friend!
Also saw a 'show-biz' headline, 'Feisty (forget the name) goes into orbit!' That must have been a really serious bean supper!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Bert
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 01:08 AM

A thrown retread lying alongside the road is a Tiremadillo. Pronounced Alabama style as Tarmadillo.

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: DMcG
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 05:26 AM

In the UK radio programme "I'm sorry I haven't a Clue" they often have a section of definitions for words. My favourite this week was

prehensile: An island previously occupied by hens.

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 10:32 AM

My favorite from Jeff Foxworthy's redneck dictionary bits:

Mayonaise: an observation by one redneck to another, in a bar: "Mayonaise some ugly women in this place"

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 10:37 AM

Frogprince:   I don't git it!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 10:41 AM

Just say it a couple of times in a mumbled drawl, and think illiterate grammer structure.

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 10:45 AM

My favourite from a few weeks back, on ISIHAC.

Newcastle...Drop atom bomb on Piers Morgan

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 10:48 AM

Still don't get it.

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 10:59 AM

Tug, are you in the U.K.? Maybe you have never heard language mangled in the particular "redneck" way that makes "Man, there's some ugly women in this place" come out pretty much as "Mayan,'ey's some ugly wimmin in this place"

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 12:02 PM

As in 'Mayonnaise have seen the glory'...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Amos
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 01:39 PM

If you really overdo the drawl it is equivalent to "Man, there's some ugly women in this place."


A

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 02:28 PM

Taken from the Uxbridge English Dictionary (I think):

Balderdash – A rapidly receding hairline

Boulangerie – To heckle underwear

Brouhaha – Jolly tea party

Candid – past tense of cando

Ciabatta – The wookie in Star wars

Disconsolate – A particular embassy

Esplanade – attempting an exclamation when drunk

Eureka – B.O.

Evanescent – A welshman who glows in the dark.

Extemporary – Permanent

Fecund – The one before fird.

Harlequin – One of a set of 5 mototbikes

Heathrow – A brief description of what a baggage handler does

Homophobe – someone who doesn't like the Simpsons

Increment – the opposite of excrement

ipod – optical aid for using peas

Ipswich – what you turn on your hip with

Marigold – to get rich quick

notable – to arrive at a restaurant fully booked

Online – Have done t'weekly wash (yorkshire)

Osmosis – Early Australian prophet

Pontefract – To theorise about Yorkshire

posthumous – the art of delivering Greek food by mail

property – To make the perfect cup of tea.

Retread – very red (in Yorkshire)

Satire – seated in a more elevated position.

scandal – footwear you should be ashamed of

telepathy – you can't be bothered to turn on the TV

Varnish – to disappear in Mayfair

Xenophobia – fear of Buddhists

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 02:32 PM

Geriatric - next time Germany starts a war
Malady - Bit like a duck
Midwifery - half-way through breaking wind
Pie Crust - What you get if you don't polish your pike
Sorcerer - even more of a saucer
Snuff Box - A coffin
Surcharge - Cash for Honours
Titillate - delayed puberty
Uganda - go and have a look
Winnebago - a horse with a bad back

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 02:56 PM

Upholstery – telling your mates how you got laid last night

Subject: RE: BS: Daffy definitions
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 06:50 PM

Humpty dumpty (also from ISIHAC) - someone who's been humped and dumped....

Kitty