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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.30.142.152.threembb.co.uk)
Date: September 16, 2013 04:32PM

Deliquesce: (vb) to cease operating as a food store and leave no sign of having ever been there.

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Define artisan

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (195.171.4.---)
Date: September 17, 2013 09:41AM

Arti-san - honoured person by the name of Arti

Define: Honorific

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.sfl9.fli.bigpond.net.au)
Date: September 30, 2013 04:54AM

Honorific: morbid terror caused by Mr Steed's first partner




Define: Peel

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 30, 2013 09:37AM

Peel...what you do to bell peppers before you eat them.


define clanger

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 30, 2013 12:42PM

Clanger: Noise made when a soup dragon opens a lid.

Define string

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: September 30, 2013 01:14PM

String! Oh, that brings back memories of my first job; going round all the farmers in the district buying their second-hand fence-post holes. I used to slice them up on the bacon-slicer, tie string around the slices and sell them to the local fishermen for nets. I got really good at pulling them straight out of the ground, but every once in a while I'd bend one and have to grind it up to sell as yacht fuel. Ah, string.

Oh, can I define string? Well, after being covered with little bits of tangled string for most of my life I'll have to say that I'm a frayed knot.

Define: nostalgia

Edited to shout at some kids on my lawn.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/30/2013 01:27PM by MistyCat.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 30, 2013 07:16PM

Nostalgia...a medical name for an attack of catarrh in the brain which allows nice memories to float upwards. usually affects people of advancing years. There is no known cure!


Define arthritis

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: October 08, 2013 04:45PM

Arthritis: a method of detecting the onset of rain when the pine cone is unavailable.


Define rain.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range109-150.btcentralplus.com)
Date: October 13, 2013 12:36PM

Something the Queen tries to do on wet days.


Define waterproof

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (195.171.4.---)
Date: October 14, 2013 10:00AM

Waterproof - Mathematical sequence definitively concluding that H2O exists.

define: Logical

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.lns3.way.bigpond.net.au)
Date: October 17, 2013 02:39AM

Logical: what makes sense to you even if your neighbours think differently due to them arguing from different premisses.




Define: fine

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: October 18, 2013 12:22PM

fin e: the end of an ebook

Define ebook

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: October 18, 2013 03:29PM

ebook: an abomination, a disaster, an insult to paper, a convenient means of taking dozens or even hundreds of books on holiday, an invaluable way of transporting technical manuals

[i](Yes, as well as our library, we have a couple of Kindles and apps on laptops.)[/]

Define dichotomy

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.lns3.way.bigpond.net.au)
Date: October 20, 2013 11:16PM

di chotomy: lady with split personality




define: split

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (195.171.4.---)
Date: December 10, 2013 03:37PM

Split - to express annoyance with bad literature.

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Define: express

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-181.btcentralplus.com)
Date: December 10, 2013 06:56PM

Express the very fast movement( too quick for the human eye to register) which occurs as a pressed button returns to its original position.


Define motion

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: robert (101.175.18.---)
Date: December 18, 2013 11:31AM

Something which one passes fairly easily but which politicians pass only after being paid massive salaries and given overseas travel and motza superannuation entitlements.

Define travel.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-177.btcentralplus.com)
Date: December 18, 2013 03:10PM

T. Ravel....Maurice's elder brother : a knitter of boleros.


Define fleckle

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.sfl9.fli.bigpond.net.au)
Date: January 06, 2014 09:04AM

Fleckle: Two people trying to emulate the collision of a black hole with a cement mixer. Very hard on the shins and ultimately pointless (except for the singularity)



Define: pointless



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2014 09:05AM by bunyip.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-183.btcentralplus.com)
Date: January 06, 2014 04:17PM

Pointless...life with the letter e missing



Define compass

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