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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: December 06, 2011 10:12AM

Error: a noise emitted by a lion by mistake

Define emitted

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.nzwide.ihug.co.nz)
Date: December 06, 2011 10:33AM

Emitted: left out of an email.

Define: neglected

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-180.btcentralplus.com)
Date: December 07, 2011 05:03PM

Neglected... the filmy garment bought by a bride for her wedding night but generally left to moulder in a drawer on return from the honeymoon.

Define nuptial

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: December 08, 2011 11:26PM

nuptial: rare marsupial which mates for life, only being a savage beast, doesn't know for whose life it is going to be mated.



define: ignorant

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.static.snap.net.nz)
Date: December 12, 2011 05:21AM

ignorant - an ant that just doesn't get it....

Define - uncomprehending

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-179.btcentralplus.com)
Date: December 12, 2011 02:49PM

Uncomprehending...a pawnbroker realising that if he doesn't give you over the odds for the junk you just offered him you are going to punch his lights out

lots of arcane slang there. Define junk



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2011 02:53PM by old boiler.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: December 12, 2011 03:43PM

Junk: a very big dessert made with sweetened milk and rennet. It is better known when served in small portions, called junkettes.

Define deSert


edited to pluralise junkette



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2011 03:45PM by SkidMarks.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: steeljam (---.range86-166.btcentralplus.com)
Date: December 12, 2011 10:58PM

de Sert: A painting by the Spanish painter Sert usually of sand and custard.

Define Custard

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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: December 13, 2011 11:05AM

Custard: a string of invective directed at late people.

Define invective

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: December 13, 2011 03:51PM

invective: where the adjective stays on the surface of things, the invective goes deeper

Define: boring

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-179.btcentralplus.com)
Date: December 14, 2011 07:22PM

Boring.. very much like a bullring but one fight lasts three weeks

Define sausage

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.nsw.optusnet.com.au)
Date: December 18, 2011 11:35PM

sausage, like infinity, is not definable the human mind.

sausage: A mysterious entity of undescribable contents not meant to be known by the human mind. cf kebab.



define: entity

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: December 19, 2011 05:49AM

entity - The mammarian glands of an en.

(please shower me with cinder blocks if that's in bad taste)

Define - glands

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.catv.broadband.hu)
Date: December 19, 2011 07:45AM

Glands: A salamander gallon

Define: Geography?

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: December 19, 2011 11:21AM

Geo. Graphy - (1) abstract representation of a set of objects, illustrated with images of the current Queen's father.

(2) bit of the world that used to be coloured red

Define abstract

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: December 21, 2011 09:43AM

abstract: (1) essay on specific muscle group often shown on TV as being available if you buy a certain piece of hardware:
(2) a state of not being there, thus being somewhere else, which then becomes there:
(3) anagram of 'cabs ratt' a rare Dutch creature which lives in seawalls and does nothing to make anyone notice it is there, much unlike a 'cart stab' which is very noticeable.



define: bazonka

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: December 22, 2011 11:09AM

Bazonka - Traditional Eastern European celebration that combines folk dancing with grenade launching.



Define: Bauble

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: December 22, 2011 12:16PM

Bauble: the green relish served with popadoms in an Indian restaurant. It is usually accompanied by red relish (Bangle) and yellow relish (Bead).

Define accompany

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: December 23, 2011 12:32AM

accompany: something to go "Viva l ' to.


define: erudition

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: December 23, 2011 10:28AM

erudition: the reddish glow that encompasses a person when they realise that there is a gap in the education

define encompasses

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