Coriander: topping best avoided at the dinner table

Define: Condiment

Condiment: Multistorey accomodation for tree people (ents)

Define: ketchup

Ketchup: a two-masted ship in dry dock

Define cutter



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Cutter: A kitchen implement used to remove the l's from recalcitrant cultists.

Define: Sleuth.

Sleuth: Inspector Clouseau's pet sloth

Define panto

<am I the only one laughing out loud here?>

Panto: Short colors

Define: Chartreuse

Chartreuse: To singe a pair of tartan trousers.


Define: Kindling

Chartreuse: a comedic ploy involving the alteration of the colours on a map.

define: Indigo

Indigo: To wax individually on the venerable game of go.

Define: Kindling.

Kindling: A Codfish know for assisting other fish out of nets.

Define: Lattice

Lattice: leafy vegetable that can only be cultivated in a grid-like pattern.

Define: pinwheel

Pinwheel: A wheel that may only be used on sit-on sewing machines.

Define: Globe.

Globe:Incandescent anthophila

Define: Snow

Snow: A brand new snack for negatively minded! Are you sad? Are you depressed? Then eat snow! It's nutritious, tasteless and reminiscent of colder times. Snow! The snack you can't be bothered to reject! Eat snow.

Define: Haddock.

<geg - my incandescent globes would feed on moths rather than flowers.>

<some wonderful definitions - I laughed aloud while alone>

Haddock: The state of my back lawn after weeding.

<I once pulled up a dock plant with my bare hands - not bad when you consider that the whole world was hanging on to the root.>

Define: weeding

<is reminded of the wonderful Haddock wordplays in Hergé's Tintin albums; unfortunately doesn't know them in English>

<points out to MistyCat that in their part of the world, it is the root hanging to the globe rather that the other way round, them being upside down>

Weeding: 22nd century spelling of the word pronounced as weading used to describe the letter-by-letter extraction (or is it eradication?) of information from a book.

Define: Radix.

Radix: a soothing bath salt for men (Sorry)

Define bathe



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bathe: Bowdlerised contraction of the Medieval oath, "By the sainted whiskers of our Lord and Saviour who suffered great personal discomfort for the benefit of many."
Possibly derived from laziness rather than propriety.

Define: Bowdlerise

Bowdlerise: Formal greeting between men, appropriate for use in front of both women and children. Now largely unused.

Define: Censor.

Censor: The official if disused title for a gentleman in full control of his senses (Autonym: Incensor)

Define: Animal.