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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: July 28, 2008 12:33PM

Crisps: The offspring of a male Cricket & a female Wasp. (See also; Wackets, Snugs & Ladyhoppers)

Define: Sugary

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: July 28, 2008 12:41PM

Sugary: A foam factory.

Define: Summer.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 28, 2008 01:40PM

Summer: strange beast belonging to English mythology.

Define: minotaur

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.62.112.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: July 28, 2008 03:33PM

minotaur: an early attempt at GM farming by Daedalus. The local abatoir owner, Theseus, declared the experiment a failure - not enough rump steak.


define Olympics

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: July 29, 2008 05:21AM

Can't be pictures of olym, can it?

Otherwise don't know.

Other fforumites come up with wittier response please.



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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: July 29, 2008 10:24AM

Olympics: Long-lost tribe of Picts, who journeyed far away and named Mount Olympus accidentally while making some tea.

Define: Gargantuan.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Stina (---.wfd74b.dsl.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 29, 2008 03:10PM

Gargantuan: An obscure chimera created from Medusa's snakes and a tucan

Define: Subtile

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: July 29, 2008 09:10PM

Subtile: glue for ceramics

Define: Fortify

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: July 30, 2008 09:42AM

Fortify: To take stock after the fourth tiff.

Define: Happy.

<Does little dance after finally handing in end of year report. Freedom!>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 30, 2008 05:43PM

Happy: strange psychological phenomenon often seen in cities between 4pm and 6pm

Define: Structural

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: August 01, 2008 05:31AM

Structural: being hit in the countryside

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: annie (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 01, 2008 09:43AM

Immediately: To be in the flurry of a media frenzie (a la Sam Newman).

Define: That Word

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: August 01, 2008 01:27PM

That word: 'Drowt aht' backwards.

Define: Quark.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: August 01, 2008 07:12PM

Quark: quadratic arc (that pesky technique by which to transform a circle into a square)

Define: Phoenix

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: August 02, 2008 05:55PM

and I was going to say quark: the noise made by a posh duck Never mind

Phoenix: a charge levied on underwear

Define book

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: August 03, 2008 02:41AM

Book: Three dimensional object containing concepts that will be butchered when translated into visual media.


Define: inaugural



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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.sns.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: August 04, 2008 08:17AM

Inaugural: adjective, in a hole made by an auger

Define: Railway.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.wbs.warwick.ac.uk)
Date: August 04, 2008 11:30AM

The Brummie opposite of "Wrong way".

Define Shoeburyness

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: August 04, 2008 12:16PM

Shoeburyness: The taste of food that has been buried and carefully aged by a dog.



Define: Cavort

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 05, 2008 07:44AM

Weatherman: A man who didn't get enough education and always gets the easiest things wrong!

Define: Sumo

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