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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginm.net)
Date: March 10, 2015 08:43PM

Military: armed forces, for the use budgies, sah!

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Define rank

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.lns1.fli.bigpond.net.au)
Date: March 12, 2015 01:57PM

rank: a possessor of a big gong, which Kenneth Williams referred to as 'stupidity'.




define: gong

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 14, 2015 12:31PM

gong: abbreviation going-on and on, etc

define: reverberation

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.lnse4.win.bigpond.net.au)
Date: March 15, 2015 12:32PM

reverberation: limited French dreaming ->

A rêver
Pronunciation: / ʀeve /
Translation of rêver in English:
verbe transitif

1
(en dormant)
to dreamque that
IN OTHER DICTIONARIES
2
(imaginer)
to dream of (succès, vengeance)
tu as dû le rêver!
you must have dreamed it!


B be -> exist, are.


C ration -> ra·tion (răsh′ən, rā′shən)
n.
1. A fixed portion, especially an amount of food allotted to persons in military service or to civilians in times of scarcity.
2. rations Food issued or available to members of a group.




Define (with malice) 'contrived'

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (195.171.4.---)
Date: March 16, 2015 04:23PM

contrived: to deceive, trick, swindle, defraud or otherwise lie to a trived. Usually done out of malice because the trived said something unpleasant about your mother.

Define: Reaching

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (101.103.152.---)
Date: March 24, 2015 02:18PM

reaching: a sailing term covering all aspects of chucking into the wind.


define: achtung!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/26/2015 09:09AM by bunyip.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (195.171.4.---)
Date: April 14, 2015 11:42AM

Achtung: The warning signs to look for that precede tongue fatigue when you've been licking something for too long.

Define: schnell



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/2015 12:23PM by Lymond.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginm.net)
Date: April 14, 2015 01:48PM

Schnell: the exoskeleton of a particularly fast snail

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Define garlic

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (143.92.1.---)
Date: April 15, 2015 02:24AM

garlic: what powers an extremely fast snail


or, for Australian fforumites only, perhaps, maybe....,

what Rex Hunt does to a slim fish.



Define: algorithm

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as13285.net)
Date: April 16, 2015 08:12AM

Algorithm: The traditional tempo of plankton dance music.

Define: Trumpery.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (195.171.4.---)
Date: April 16, 2015 12:26PM

Trumpery: The art of telling people how a new golf course will be good for them when they aren't allowed in, while simultaneously trying to buy their homes at half the going market rate.


Define: Toupée

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (101.178.163.---)
Date: April 17, 2015 04:23AM

Toupee: Too pee: it is obviously to go and relieve the inner stress caused by an excessive consumption of hazelnuts by coating the head with coconut fibre and thinking kind thoughts of malignantly minded sloth (two toed variety).



Define: definitely

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 20, 2015 01:21PM

Dwfinitely - the nocturnal removal of the outer bounds of a countable set.

Define: Freedom

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (195.171.4.---)
Date: April 24, 2015 09:39AM

Freedom: an OM that can go wherever it wants to go.

Define: Silly

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.jetstream.xtra.co.nz)
Date: May 03, 2015 12:47PM

Silly: The appearance of a house constructed such that the window-sills extend far past the bounds of that which is both necessary and proper.

Define: lintel

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.lns4.fli.bigpond.net.au)
Date: May 04, 2015 02:05AM

lintel: refers to activity concerning the end of the umbilical cord- if you have a bit of fluff in your life then eventually you will find the lintel get into your belly button.



Define: polyandrous

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginm.net)
Date: May 04, 2015 11:05AM

Polyandrous: a parrots way of sharing the workload

Define sharing

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.sfl9.fli.bigpond.net.au)
Date: May 11, 2015 02:28AM

sharing: a place to be cross in another universe.



define: indefinable

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as13285.net)
Date: July 16, 2015 08:19PM

indefinable: an educated cuttlefish called Sid.

define: inexplicable

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