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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:58 pm
by deer of the dawn
Clinquant
That really aggravating female relative.
Exhume
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:38 pm
by Sorus
Exhume
A person who has undergone enough plastic surgery to qualify as an artificial lifeform.
Percolator
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:23 pm
by JIkj fjds j
Percolator
A machine to mull over data and find murder clues.
[From the direct to video spoof: Black Coffee Beans.
A Hercule Poirot play by Agatha Christie.]
Sabulous
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 6:07 pm
by deer of the dawn
Sabulous
A snarky way to say, Not so fabulous.
Prognosticate
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 2:17 am
by Sorus
Prognosticate
To make a prediction by the way something smells.
Oubliette
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 11:57 am
by ussusimiel
Oubliette: a name French parents give to an unwanted female child (ouch, that's really mean!
)
Cormorant
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:52 pm
by Sorus
Cormorant
A blog run by angry sheep.
Parallax
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 5:48 pm
by ussusimiel
Parallax : a very unfortunate condition experienced only by Zen Buddhists, where the state of relaxation becomes so profound that it causes total paralysis. (If the person is in the lotus position when this happens, it complicates thing even further.)
Brocialist
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 8:31 pm
by Sorus
Brocialist
Someone who goes door-to-door extolling the virtues of broccoli.
Capriccio
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 10:16 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
Capriccio
A spirited trot, seen among the White Stallions of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna when they have been fed coffee beans mixed in with their oats.
Also referred to as,
"a piaffe beyond the poles."*
* For those of us not up on their
haute ecole terminology.. i.e. those of us who did not obsess over "White Stallions of Lippiza" as a child, horses were traditionally trained to
piaffe while tied between two poles.
unequivocal
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:50 pm
by ussusimiel
unequivocal: back to those pesky French again, a container made locally for arrows.
Givenchy
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 9:42 pm
by JIkj fjds j
Givenchy
A Haruchai submission hold using a Boston crab, Chinese burn, combo.
Hammerlock
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 9:44 pm
by ussusimiel
Hammerlock: the position in the scrum for a rugby-mad shark
embellish
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:55 pm
by JIkj fjds j
Embellish
To attach bells to your bicycle.
From the Guiness Book of World Records:
On the 2nd October 2012, Wang Jing of Jinchang in China
successfully embellished her bicycle with 350 bells.
Cacophony
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:55 pm
by Sorus
Cacophony
Faux chocolate.
Pantomime
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 2:16 pm
by ussusimiel
Pantomime : deadly poisonous snake that lives in trees in the Brazilian rainforest.
Tridentine
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:46 pm
by Sorus
Tridentine
A brand of sugar-free gum invented by Poseidon.
Wassail
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:19 pm
by ussusimiel
Wassail: the term for a a piece of fan-fiction that is far superior to the original.
Castellan
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:45 pm
by JIkj fjds j
Castellan
A tramp's champagne breakfast. Consisting of an unfinished can of Stella Artois usually found on a wall by a bus stop on a Sunday morning, and the stub of a Castella cigar (known as a Tramp's Truffle).
Trampoline
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:39 am
by ussusimiel
Trampoline: drug taken by Transit Officers to get through the day.
Batistuta