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#41 Post by Slasher » Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:31 am

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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#42 Post by CharlieOneSix » Sat Dec 07, 2019 1:28 pm

Gazunder - a chamber pot ..... because it gazunder the bed. Not heard much nowadays since the introduction of ensuite bathrooms.....
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#43 Post by G-CPTN » Sat Dec 07, 2019 5:24 pm

Pofor.


What's a pofor?

To piss in ...

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#44 Post by ian16th » Sat Dec 07, 2019 8:40 pm

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'
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#45 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Dec 07, 2019 8:51 pm

She tip-toed into the bedroom, fluttered her eye lashes, and un-moored her robe.

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#46 Post by ribrash » Sat Dec 07, 2019 9:21 pm

Duckdo.

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#47 Post by bob2s » Sat Dec 07, 2019 11:48 pm

Brain dead followed by a suitable expletive to suit the occasion.

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#48 Post by Slasher » Sun Dec 08, 2019 1:51 am

(As in “book”) booshid. Another of my wife’s pronounciations.

You sumtime givmi smiggin booshid Rod! /:)

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#49 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:39 am

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...
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."

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