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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Violetmoon (---.asa.utk.edu)
Date: April 05, 2012 06:23PM

Induction: A process for entering ducts, large or small.

Define: egg

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-168.btcentralplus.com)
Date: April 05, 2012 07:27PM

Egg... a ducted surprise for a virgin hen

Define shell

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: April 06, 2012 12:22AM

shell - a place of eternal damnation for the 19th letter of the alphabet.

Define - beelzeub

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.midd-bam-1.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 06, 2012 10:55AM

Beelzebub - The entry after BK Zebub in the Polish phone book.

Define Warsaw

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: April 06, 2012 02:42PM

<okay...I'll bite>

Warsaw: Implement to divide one big war into multiple smaller ones (cf. Declaration of Independence)

<points out that the resurrection of the Polish state in 1918 was fully justified, but is nonetheless a point in case: World War One ended and gave birth to the Polish-Ukrainian War, the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish–Czechoslovak War, the Polish-Soviet War, the Polish–Lithuanian War, the Silesian Uprisings, ...>

Define: Partition

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-168.btcentralplus.com)
Date: April 06, 2012 04:17PM

A scenario where u r missing from the maternity ward ( bit laboured that one)


define maturation

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: April 06, 2012 05:12PM

<Wonders how anybody would get out of beelzebub>
<Laughs muchly when it happens>

maturation - Army food for floor coverings

Define - Attention

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 07, 2012 10:39AM

Attention: a position adopted by soldiers when a general...........sorry I lost concentration just then. never mind.

Define daydream

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: April 07, 2012 02:50PM

NO

Define: Willful disobedience

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: April 10, 2012 05:42AM

wilful disobedience: leaving a post life attestation saying 'NO!!!!!!!!!!!!'.



define: contrived

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 10, 2012 09:28PM

Contrived - left (contra arrived)

Define gauche

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.networking.otago.ac.nz)
Date: April 11, 2012 04:51AM

gauche - a surgical dressing that's too rough, the wrong colour, and just too loud, darling!

Define - flamboyant

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: April 11, 2012 07:11AM

Flamboyant: a burning lifebelt

Define float

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-186.btcentralplus.com)
Date: April 11, 2012 09:57AM

Fl o at..... the hole in a punctured tyre



Define over-weight

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 11, 2012 01:30PM

Overweight: the time between the appointment time and the time actually seen by a medical professional; esp. a dietician.

Define Appointment

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: April 11, 2012 02:48PM

Appointment: intended to sharpen

Define pin

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.glfd-bam-2.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 11, 2012 05:25PM

Pin- my version of a play on words, I call it pin, u call it pun.

Define tenuous

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: April 12, 2012 05:35AM

<In New Zealand, we woukld call a pin a pun due to the way we mangle words>

Tenuous -Tennis, but only just....

define - batting

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-186.btcentralplus.com)
Date: April 12, 2012 09:40AM

Batting... the noise a small nocturnal flying mammal makes when it collides with a church bell.

Define membrane

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: April 13, 2012 06:27AM

membrane - the memory organ of a particular sex - the sex that can't see things right in front of them, belches loudly in the middle of dinner for no reason, and doesn't really care if the shoes they're wearing are last seasons.

define - bloke

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