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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-177.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 07, 2012 09:58AM

PHTTT... part of a horse's nostril.


Define booger

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: February 07, 2012 10:47AM

booger: an expletive used in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire

Define Othello

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: February 07, 2012 01:34PM

Othello: Greeting a fforum newcomer in a thread where the topic is not greeting fforum newcomers.

Define: newcomer

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: February 07, 2012 05:30PM

Newcomer: anyone and everyone, sometime or other

Define other

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: February 08, 2012 11:15AM

Other: a aquatic mammal with a speech impediment.

Define Impediment

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: February 08, 2012 04:48PM

Impediment: the way your shoes slightly stick and make a quiet 'tick' noise after you've trodden into an old chewing gum on the sidewalk

Define: vulcanise

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: February 09, 2012 05:56AM

Vulcanise - start to behave exactly like a race of people who have repressed emotion and violence in favour of peace and logic.

Also, go for large pointy ears, rather than plain old round(ish) ones...


Define - logical

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: February 09, 2012 09:39AM

Logical: the reasoning applied by someone on a diet - I cut the cake in half so all the calories have fallen out.

Define Calorie

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: February 09, 2012 09:59AM

Calorie - A town full of fat people, somewhere in the Australian Outback.

Define - outback

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: February 09, 2012 11:40AM

outback: Australian name for a bustle

Define fashion

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: February 09, 2012 03:58PM

Fashion: Obscure branch of nuclear physics which attempts to pinpoint the exact moment when orange is either in or out.

Define: Satsuma

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: February 10, 2012 08:43AM

Satsuma: Shelved proposal by the promotions dept of the Orange phone network. Turns out most people do not want to spend every weekend watching Kill Bill at the cinema, even if they do get two tickets for the price of one.

Define: Miss Piggy.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-183.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 10, 2012 09:47AM

Misspiggy.... To go on a pork free diet

Define ...star



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/10/2012 09:56AM by old boiler.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: February 10, 2012 10:18AM

St. Ar - patron saint of wannabe celebrities.

Define Patron

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: February 12, 2012 03:42AM

Pat Ron - because he's been such a nice boy...

Define - gratify

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: February 12, 2012 03:59AM

gratify: To enhance a Monty Python dish of strawberry tart by the addition of grated rat. Rather less popular than one would imagine. (cf "au gratin ")

Define: puke
Edited to remove small traces of vomit.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2012 04:02AM by MistyCat.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-177.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 12, 2012 10:13AM

Puke.. the immediate pre-ceding link in natural selection to the pukeko sometimes spelt puke echo

define natural selection

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: February 15, 2012 05:17AM

natural selection: Some god's attempt to create intelligent life in its own image, but by consideration of all the variants which have arisen seems to show that intelligent design ain't.


define:consideration

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: February 15, 2012 11:33AM

consideration: following objective evaluation the situation is found to be more heavily weighted on the con side than the pro.

Define weighted

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-180.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 15, 2012 10:58PM

Method employed by soppy blokes to see who's got the biggest..........toy


Define furry friend



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2012 11:00PM by old boiler.

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