Your favourite word du jour!
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First time I heard the words ‘Elocution lessons’ as a kid I thought it was instructions on how to get electrocuted and being taught how to act while electrons seek to cut short one’s life.
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Gazunder - a chamber pot ..... because it gazunder the bed. Not heard much nowadays since the introduction of ensuite bathrooms.....
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Pofor.
What's a pofor?
To piss in ...
What's a pofor?
To piss in ...
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At the other end of the scale, there are cases like I came across today; where someone invented an antonym, when a perfectly good word exists.
Instead of 'cast off' they invented 'un-moored'
Instead of 'cast off' they invented 'un-moored'
Cynicism improves with age
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She tip-toed into the bedroom, fluttered her eye lashes, and un-moored her robe.
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Brain dead followed by a suitable expletive to suit the occasion.
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(As in “book”) booshid. Another of my wife’s pronounciations.
You sumtime givmi smiggin booshid Rod!
You sumtime givmi smiggin booshid Rod!
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Paratamize: verb; to blow something into enough smithereens that the debris covers its own substantial parameter, to expand a point outwards into a parameter. A word invented by Judas Priest for their song 'Hell Patrol' on the 1990 album "Painkiller".
Because JP's lead singer Rob Halford is gay it has also picked up a rather unfortuante urban meaning which I shall refrain from mentioning here...
Because JP's lead singer Rob Halford is gay it has also picked up a rather unfortuante urban meaning which I shall refrain from mentioning here...
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."