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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.static.dignet.co.nz)
Date: February 16, 2012 07:54AM

Furry Friend - what a woman calls her favourite...........toy

Define - smut

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Marit (159.190.251.---)
Date: February 16, 2012 08:08AM

Smut: perfect tense of the verb "smite"

Define: grammar

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-180.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 16, 2012 01:45PM

Grammar... another old boiler

define spring chicken

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.static.snap.net.nz)
Date: February 19, 2012 02:18AM

Spring Chicken - A really tough, rubbery piece of cooked poultry.

Define - overdone

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-180.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 19, 2012 05:00PM

Over'd one... somebody who doesn't rise swiftly through the ranks in his or her profession.


Define workhorse

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: February 20, 2012 06:44AM

<applauds "Over'd one">

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: February 22, 2012 03:12AM

edited because I made a mistake of not being on the last page, and i have no definition of 'workhorse' except this is the third time I have heard "i heard it on the grapevine" today. Except thai it is an anagram of 'she or work'.

still have no definition so the questionis still open.

Sorry!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2012 03:17AM by bunyip.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-180.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 22, 2012 09:38AM

-....or even were hooks minus r

No that's rubbish How about Kor!! Whores!!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2012 09:48AM by old boiler.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: February 22, 2012 10:53AM

Arguing over Workhorse? Is that a kosher row? Does it work only at sea, or is it shore work?

I felt I had more, but I can't think of any.

Workhorse: A Brony nightmare

Define Didcott, without mentioning Chad.

Hey, why didn't my URL code work? I can't see the problem, though I accept that since it didn't work I did something wrong. What was the wrong thing wot I dun?

<Re-edit. Thanks, PrinzHilde. I've become so used to my browser filling that part in for me that the absence just didn't register in my elderly and failing brain.>



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2012 09:01PM by MistyCat.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: February 22, 2012 04:04PM

<dont't leave out the http://>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: February 23, 2012 02:35AM

'http://>' looks vaguely like a swearword in some other language.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.networking.otago.ac.nz)
Date: February 24, 2012 02:56AM

It also looks like the kind of thing you'd do if you wanted to blank out a swear word, vis:

I jumped into my car this morning, but the [ing] thing wouldn't start!

Back on topic - Didcott - A small child who one slept in a cradle, but now, sadly, is too big.

Define - toddler

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-180.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 24, 2012 09:14AM

T'oddler


Somebody who can speak like a northern flowerpot man.


Define weed.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: February 24, 2012 10:10AM

Weed: a Brummie's (or Scouser's) attempt to say "weird".

Define accent.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: February 24, 2012 12:12PM

Accent: a tree person intent on suicide

define intent

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.networking.otago.ac.nz)
Date: February 25, 2012 11:43PM

intent - living in a canvas dwelling, because you're set on showing the world that housing is the efforts of a facist dictatorship warping our minds into mindless automatons!

Define - paranoia

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: February 26, 2012 01:30PM

Paranoia: A matched set of noi.

Define: set

<I believe that "set" has the most definitions of all words in the Oxford Dictionary.>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-178.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 26, 2012 04:49PM

Set...Ancient Egyptian goddess of jellied foodstuffs and unproven etymological rumours

Define gossip

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: February 27, 2012 10:07AM

gossip: an attempt to take a small mouthful from a firehose.

Define firehose

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Marit (159.190.251.---)
Date: February 27, 2012 11:21AM

Firehose: Legwear for firemen (possibly this: [www.bodega.se] )

Define: emergency

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