# Ambridge Reporter Shorter English Dictionary **URL:** \ **Category:** Not The Archers\ **Created:** [3 December 2017 14:39 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804 "2017-12-03T14:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [11 May 2018 12:24 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/41 "2018-05-11T12:24:43Z")
> [@joe](#): > > Arse in… you missed out ‘Office’ there, joe dere ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [13 May 2018 23:48 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/42 "2018-05-13T23:48:10Z")
**Obscurantism** Niche entomology ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [14 May 2018 00:02 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/43 "2018-05-14T00:02:08Z")
**Epoxy Resin** : substandard amber. In Yorkshire. ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [14 May 2018 02:23 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/44 "2018-05-14T02:23:56Z")
**Bruschetta** Miss James is rather surly ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [21 May 2018 22:49 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/45 "2018-05-21T22:49:00Z")
**Fusion Cuisine** Bastard offspring of Mother Of Invention (aka _Why the feck didn’t you **tell** me you’d used the last of the_ [insert essential ingredient]) ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 May 2018 23:06 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/46 "2018-05-21T23:06:51Z")
One of _those_ evenings in the kitchen, joe? Mother of Invention - well, Call Any Vegetable whatever you needed it to be and it will respond to you. Albeit not necessarily co-operatively. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 May 2018 23:12 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/47 "2018-05-21T23:12:58Z")
**Exact** : why I divorced him/her ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2018 18:02 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/48 "2018-05-22T18:02:42Z")
**Bottle Bank** Spooner’s revenge shag ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2018 19:32 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/49 "2018-05-22T19:32:04Z")
Ah, Joe: do you bank with the Nat West? ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [26 May 2018 21:23 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/50 "2018-05-26T21:23:38Z")
**Pastis** : Cornish delicacis which do not taste of aniseed or take kindly to dilution ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [2 June 2018 22:47 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/51 "2018-06-02T22:47:40Z")
**Furbelow** : ‘I am allergic to wax’ (sorry) ---
**Author:** ![Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/carinthia/32/6542_2.png) [@Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Carinthia)\ **Post date:** [2 June 2018 22:51 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/52 "2018-06-02T22:51:51Z")
Winces Loudly… Carinthia.xx ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [2 June 2018 22:55 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/53 "2018-06-02T22:55:09Z")
I _said_ I was sorry G xx ---
**Author:** ![Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/carinthia/32/6542_2.png) [@Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Carinthia)\ **Post date:** [2 June 2018 23:03 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/54 "2018-06-02T23:03:13Z")
Well It was a combination ovva Snork anna Wince, TBH Carinthia.xx ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [4 June 2018 20:09 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/55 "2018-06-04T20:09:11Z")
**Tanager** : a sunbed. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [14 June 2018 03:46 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/56 "2018-06-14T03:46:25Z")
**Lorgnette** : a vanishing and fugitive word, fleeing from sentences such as: ‘Dear, have you mowed the \_\_\_\_?’ 'Has yon bastart butcher sent the \_\_\_\_ , Aggie hen? ---
**Author:** ![Armrest](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/armrest/32/171_2.png) [@Armrest](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Armrest)\ **Post date:** [14 June 2018 05:46 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/57 "2018-06-14T05:46:54Z")
Amble = the way to walk past a pub in t’Archers ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [25 June 2018 02:52 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/58 "2018-06-25T02:52:34Z")
**Nightjar** The yardarm was _hours_ ago ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [25 June 2018 10:15 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/59 "2018-06-25T10:15:45Z")
**Verdigris** : a bung to the management to avert yet another bluddy _Ballo in Maschera_ ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [25 June 2018 14:43 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/ambridge-reporter-shorter-english-dictionary/804/60 "2018-06-25T14:43:34Z")
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