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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (---.ipv4.regusnet.com)
Date: September 03, 2010 01:22PM

Animal: A cartoon illness.

Define: Genus

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Violetmoon (---.asa.utk.edu)
Date: September 03, 2010 01:31PM

Genus: An illiterate genius

Define: August

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mrswildthing (---.range86-149.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 03, 2010 05:33PM

Summer breeze

Define: Thesaurus

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: September 03, 2010 08:00PM

Thesaurus: Predecessor of Themammoth and Thedodo (amongst others).

Define: Hanny's Voorwerp.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: September 04, 2010 02:40AM

Hanny's Voorwerp: Spiffy astronomical discovery and soon-to-be comic book? (Really, I don't know any better definition than that!)

Define: astronomical

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 04, 2010 09:52AM

Astronomical: the antonym of economical

Define ecological

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 04, 2010 11:44AM

Ecological: a study of the conduciveness of an area to reverberations

Define: Conducive

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mrswildthing (---.range86-156.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 04, 2010 12:03PM

Conducive: being in a position or state in which one can be more easily misled or scammed.

Define: Calliope



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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 04, 2010 03:42PM

Calliope: a telephone conversation conducted in doggerel

Define: Doggerel

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mrswildthing (---.range86-156.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 04, 2010 04:03PM

Doggerel: Descriptive poem relating to the fishing forecast

Define: Charabanc

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: September 04, 2010 05:39PM

Charabanc: where Mickey took out a loan so he and Minnie could buy a house.

Define: pincushion

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 05, 2010 01:24PM

[digression]


MuseSusan Wrote:
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> Charabanc: where Mickey took out a loan so he and
> Minnie could buy a house.

Ah! memories of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band! although this is earlier (1933)(Harry leader)

[/digression]

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.is.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 06, 2010 10:54AM

Pincushion: Old Nordic 'someone who shuns a pinko', pinko being a breed of dog well loved by the Vikings.

Define: Granola.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: September 06, 2010 09:15PM

Granola: Fundamentalist nouveau riche (from: Gran'dollar, by proxy of ayatolla)

Define: Colonel.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mrswildthing (---.range86-156.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 06, 2010 09:22PM

Colonel: A military nut

Define: adipose

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 07, 2010 11:42AM

Adipose: a stance adopted specifically for a clothes catalogue, more specifically mens underwear.

Define: underwear

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.197.188.93.threembb.co.uk)
Date: September 07, 2010 05:31PM

underwear: a garment that should be used more frequently.

Define fez

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: September 07, 2010 06:51PM

Fez: Magicians' hat.

Define: Mask.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: September 07, 2010 10:31PM

M-ask: The 1,000th repetition of "Are we there yet?" on any long journey with children.

define: Aftershock

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mrswildthing (---.range86-156.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 07, 2010 11:12PM

Aftershock: the period of time during which you come to realise that sweet tea with sugar tastes vile and the blanket around your shoulders is itch and smells of cat.

Defie: constabulary

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