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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: August 31, 2008 05:45PM

Calendar: Advert slogan for Endar's hire-an-elf phone service

Define: Sindarin

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.132.---)
Date: September 01, 2008 04:13PM

Sindarin: A bin for fireplace ashes

Define: sidhe

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 02, 2008 02:34PM

Sidhe: Old Finlandic spelling of the agricultural tool 'scythe'.

Define: Frisbee.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.166.189.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: September 03, 2008 10:38AM

Frisbee: a small honey-producing insect which is having a bad hair day

Define television

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.253-202-2.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 03, 2008 12:42PM

Television - Tel e-vision device capable of showing old Minder repeats.

Define: obverse

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.130.---)
Date: September 04, 2008 04:32AM

Obverse: Stanza from the epic poem of Bill and Ben

Define: Sagacious

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 04, 2008 08:49AM

Sagacious: Having the properties of a saga: a long and tedious plot, operatic characters, and at least one chariot race that goes on forever.

Define: Wibble.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.244.249.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2008 11:01AM

Wibble: a wobble that has been disemvowelled.

Define coffee

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: splat21 (195.33.121.---)
Date: September 04, 2008 11:32AM

Coffee: An extremely painful (if illiterate) method of clearing the throat which results in the sufferer screaming.

Define excelsior

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.253-193-42.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 04, 2008 11:40AM

Excelsior: a lethal alcoholic beverage made from extraterrestrial herbs.


Define: Curvaceous

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Anonymous User (162.136.192.---)
Date: September 04, 2008 12:05PM

Curvaceous: a type of plant characterised by arcing stems, and rounded leaves, possessing little to no pith; the primary food of a curvivore

Define: Expectorate



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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: September 04, 2008 12:16PM

Expectorate: academic term for a candidate having finished the work on his thesis and waiting for it being graded

(Welcome Velaki! Have some tea and feel free to go off-topic in any thread that takes your fancy.)

Define: magnificence

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (92.41.0.---)
Date: September 04, 2008 02:33PM

Hi Velaki. Enjoy the facilities in this garden of unearthly delights

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 05, 2008 09:26AM

Magnificence: Large print coins for use by poorly sighted Americans.

Define: Ambivalence.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: splat21 (195.33.121.---)
Date: September 05, 2008 09:45AM

Ambivalence? Hamlet.

Define Elucidate

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 05, 2008 11:59AM

Elucidate: a romantic interlude designed to clarify each partners suitability

Define: Procrastination

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: September 05, 2008 12:24PM

Procrastination: A country in favour of crasties

Define: sponge

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 05, 2008 12:59PM

A Swiss ponge, for use in more smelly circumstances than a regular ponge.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: September 08, 2008 12:07PM

<coughs politely>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 08, 2008 12:15PM

Coff Spolitely: The process of coffication with all due respect being paid to the ponge gods.

Define: Spelunk.

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