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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: January 07, 2014 11:23AM

Compass: beast of burden received as a prize.

Define prize

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-185.btcentralplus.com)
Date: January 07, 2014 07:19PM

Prize.... an rz pie unmarked for its savoury or sweet elements


Define umami

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (101.103.31.---)
Date: January 15, 2014 11:08AM

Umami: tasteful song by Al Jolson.



Define: tasteful

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Sir FFlint (---.wa.westnet.com.au)
Date: February 22, 2014 02:56AM

Taseful: A fashionable muffin. (the best I could do I'm afraid!)

Define: muffin

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range109-150.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 22, 2014 07:23PM

Muffin is the act of boiling up and eating an old fashioned hand-warmer when one is lost in Antarctic wastes and feeling nuffin really matters any more I think I'll just lie down here in the nice blizzard and put lard on this king penguin's boils!

Define super calla phragilisticexpiallidotios

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: February 23, 2014 11:30AM

super calla phragilisticexpiallidotios: the stage above mere calla phragilisticexpiallidotios.

Define Cockney

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (101.103.163.---)
Date: February 26, 2014 11:07PM

Cockney: being able to speak one of the many UK dialects with a flavour of jellied eels and tripe



Define (Omitting government and political outpourings) tripe

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: February 27, 2014 10:25AM

Tripe: food of the gods, much loved by anyone with a taste for the sublime or the cor blimey. (The preceeding statement is, of course, tripe.)


Define sweetmeats

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Sir FFlint (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 01, 2014 07:29AM

Sweetmeat: An occasion when you answer the door to someone who assures you he's not there to sell you something and really means it.

Define synergy

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range109-150.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 01, 2014 02:31PM

Synergy the act of doing something really naughty with great gusto/ the feeling afterwards.


Define tachicardia

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Sir FFlint (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 02, 2014 12:27AM

Tachicardia: The feeling you get when you find that you've leaned on chewing gum and it's spoiled your favourite cardigan.

Define meringue



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/02/2014 12:28AM by Sir FFlint.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.lns1.way.bigpond.net.au)
Date: March 02, 2014 04:17AM

meringue: the sound of a Scottish waiter: Would you like a rice pudding or a meringue?

You're nae wrong, I'll have a rice pudding.



<end of old, old jokes>

define:superseded

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Sir FFlint (---.wa.westnet.com.au)
Date: March 02, 2014 08:02AM

superseded: description of an obese parrot

define cauliflower

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 03, 2014 10:04AM

Cauliflower: the prime ingredient of caulk, just add to water and boil intil is reaches the right consistency.

Define Consistent

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.sfl9.fli.bigpond.net.au)
Date: March 04, 2014 12:38AM

Con Sistent: Greek feller who is always the same.



[Begin Hellenic jokes now]


Define: acropolis

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-149.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 04, 2014 09:57AM

Acro-polis... archaic word for the pointy bit on a scottish police constable's helmet.



Define hellenic

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: steeljam (---.range86-166.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 07, 2014 10:43PM

Hellen Nic - The lettering at the top of the windscreen of a Ford Capri GT

Define: Automobile

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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Sir FFlint (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 08, 2014 02:11AM

Automobile: A mobile phone that talks to your friends for you automatically giving you more time to twitter.

Define: tzatziki

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: March 08, 2014 09:32AM

tzatziki: an illiterate Greek's attempt to spell "taxi"
His similarly afflicted Turkish friend's attempt was "cacik").

Define mint.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range109-150.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 08, 2014 05:12PM

Mint (it)...what an australian who is in earnest says , along with "no I " when he

is offered a sweet for the second time after refusing one initially


Define initial

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