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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 13, 2013 02:07PM

Ice Rink - what an eskimo with speech impediment gives his new fiance.

Define Impediment

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (---.messagelabs.net)
Date: April 16, 2013 11:33AM

Impediment - the fine layer of eroded goblins found underneath a troll bridge.


Define: Biodegradable

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: April 16, 2013 12:07PM

Biodegradable - (Let's be realistic here.) Given time, bloody well everything.

Define: Ephemeral

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: April 16, 2013 12:20PM

Beaten by MC!!
(Bio - degradable: An account of someone's life subsequently proven to be wrong)

Ephemeral - pertaining to a Northerner's thigh bone



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/2013 12:22PM by SkidMarks.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: April 17, 2013 07:27AM

Define: 'Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at04/16/2013 12.22PM by Skidmarks'

Attribution of some possible erroneousness in a previous statement.

Define: erroneous

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: April 17, 2013 12:37PM

erroneous - ER 'r' one o' us
The slogan of those who feel that the queen is just one of the common people.

Define:Lèse-majesté

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: April 17, 2013 04:35PM

Lèse-majesté: the queen of collies (but usually the king in drag)

Define collie

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: April 18, 2013 03:18AM

collie: one that wobbles



define: wobbles

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 18, 2013 01:07PM

wobbles: a rather more rotund than normal womble.

define rotund

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.115.37.147.plusnet.pcl-ag01.dyn.plus.net)
Date: April 18, 2013 05:58PM

rotund: A dyslexic rodent

define: headset

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.nsw.optusnet.com.au)
Date: April 28, 2013 02:38AM

headset: anagram of 'tea shed', how your cranium is placed in a depiction of you by a sculptor, excepting if you get Henry Moored with the result that you cannot be identified and you have a bloody great hole in what purports to be your head.



Define: 'Henry Moore'

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: May 07, 2013 05:34PM

Henry Moore ...a shortened version of the sculptor christened Henry Please-No-Moore-Lumps-Of- Large-Brass- Castings-On-The-Greensward-Or-Else.


Define brevity

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: May 15, 2013 01:36PM

Brevity - thĕ act of adding strangĕ marks to vŏwĕls

Define accentuate

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-177.btcentralplus.com)
Date: May 15, 2013 02:04PM

Pretending to have more money than you actually own.


Define hoodwink

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (---.messagelabs.net)
Date: May 16, 2013 01:43PM

Hoodwink: A non-verbal communication between ne'er-do-wells to indicate the coast is clear.


Define: Gangster

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: May 28, 2013 04:12AM

g angster - 1000 Freudian failures



define: streptococci

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: May 28, 2013 08:45AM

(Hmmmmm - g angster. A billion rather than a thousand, perhaps?)


Steptococci: a strain of bacteria that thinks it is king of the castle, and otherwise conceited to the point of arrogance.

Define bacterium.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range109-149.btcentralplus.com)
Date: May 28, 2013 10:30AM

Bacterium...an hysterical fear of very small camels.


Define pyramid

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (195.171.4.---)
Date: June 06, 2013 11:25AM

Pyramid: the act of setting fire to things while standing in the middle of them.



Define Octagon

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: June 07, 2013 01:23PM

Octagon: a departing cephalopod

Define departure

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