I propose a thread in the spirit of ISHIHAC’s Uxbridge English Dictionary to record our occasional flights of lunacy. Kicking off -:
Paraclete: a claged blird
Tenacity: sheltered housing development for the elderly
Nodule: the minimal acknowledgement afforded to someone one is not at all pleased to encounter
Excellent, Gus
I will Ponder
Carinthia.xx
They don’t come with pondering, Dere, they suddenly strike one at inappropriate moments. Monday morning ‘Prayers’ at work was a particularly rich environment, I found, except when it degenerated into ‘Fight Club’, when I would perk up and pay attention.
Lassitude: the quality of being to a greater or lesser extent a sheepdog
Immoderate Snork!
Carinthia.xx
That’s flight cub: a terrified junior bear.
But, um, this is the Ambridge Reporter; the Ambridge Observer is an entirely different publication…
I have twiddled the thread title.
Twiddle: rotating wee.
Thank you Hedgers. Combination of brain fart and the refusal of the title line to take a collection of uppercase initials. My apologies.
Foresight: The immediate innner conviction that [whatever] is going to go on and on and on, becoming quite the saga
Dragon: see ‘Foresight’
(2) Indian food snobbery
Emulate: Joe’s cocked up his Christmas dinner timings…
Diatribe - the Archer family
Profiterole - anal aerobics
A thought occurs: should this not be the Ambridge Reporter Shorter English Dictionary?
it was a good thought and has been acted upon
Inuit:
(although there are times that one feels nae nook is safe from incursions of such)
Inuit: a thought which comes back and bites you, as in the Ayenbite of Inwyt?
Erudition? I’m having Nunavut…
But yes indeed o Fish, that 'un too.
Dowager’s Hump: a toyboy
Finagle: an undernourished, large bird of prey.
Lexicon: a surrogacy arrangement