Ambridge Reporter Shorter English Dictionary

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Luigi French term for a Clydesider
Pentacle Scrotal tattoo
Buttocks Treatment for gluteal wrinkles

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Love it

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Shag pile Stately brothel

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Platitude duck-billed cliché that thinks it’s important

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Molested: an area of land, as it might be one’s lawn, under ‘cultivation’ by a particular mole and his immediate family

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Divot = dim, but warm

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Career = the dopler effect

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Not mine, but

Red Shift a woman in a scarlet chemise running through doppled sunlight

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Mansplaining Perfectly reasonable response to wimminaccuracy

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Tssk, joe. A little domestic friction? (actually, wouldn’t that be ‘dusting’?)

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No - getting flak online for pointing out that flute doesn’t have a 4½ octave range and bass flute is the same register as viola, not cello. About the level of accuracy one would expect of ChronicFM, of course, but I wasn’t going to let it go unchallenged. Unfortunately the person who made the video happened to be female, so of course…

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< sympathetic nodding > ahhhh, yes. One of those sorts of moments.

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Samovar: a subset of those things pertaining to us
Umlaut: a response to the infrequent question “what is a popular four-letter synonym for yob, corner boy or ned?”

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Pasternak Skill in Italian cookery

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Nabokov To pilfer from a library
Shakespeare One whom an Arab aristocrat acknowledges as an equal
Tolkien Lament about road charges

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Those are truly horrible, Joe! Well done.

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Trivia = 3 roads you could take.

Tremendous = Who falls from high places ??

Bravery = Absolutely IS a bosom sling

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To be confused at your peril with a boomslang…

And how is the Surprising Mrs Shanks? Doing Surprisingly well, I do hope, poor lass.

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She continues, as is her habit, to surprise.

Clearly in some pain, but has so far restrained herself from employing the staple-gun on me nor the Blow-torch. So I must be doing some things not wrong.

Being very stoical. Mind you, putting a bosom-sling ON someone is a new one for me !

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Aye, dere: you will find it takes both hands.

Please give her the very best wishes of some madwoman you know from the internet, and I am quite sure you are doing many things right.
G xxxx

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