Monday, October 1, 2012

Ardcrony (n.)


A remote acquaintance passed off as 'a very good friend of mine' by someone trying to impress people.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Symond’s Yat (n.)

The little spoonful inside the lid of a recently opened boiled egg.

Symond’s Yat

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Hunsingore (n.)

Medieval ceremonial brass horn with which the successful execution of an araglin (q.v.) is trumpeted from the castle battlements.

Hunsingore

Friday, September 28, 2012

Trantlemore (vb.)

To make a noise like a train crossing a set of points.

Trantlemore

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Beccles (n.)

The small bone buttons placed in bacon sandwiches by unemployed guerrilla dentist.

Beccles

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Scraptoft (n.)

The absurd flap of hair a vain and balding man grows long above one ear to comb it to the other ear.

Scraptoft

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Monday, September 24, 2012

Burlingjobb (n.archaic)

A seventeenth-century crime by which excrement is thrown into the street from a ground-floor window.

Burlingjobb

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Pudsey (n.)

The curious-shaped flat wads of dough left on a kitchen table after someone has been cutting scones out of it.

Pudsey

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Skenfrith (n.)

The flakes of athlete's foot found inside socks.

Skenfrith

Friday, September 21, 2012

Botusfleming (n. medical)

A small, long-handled steel trowel used by surgeons to remove the contents of a patient's nostrils prior to a sinus operation.

Botusfleming

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Huttoft (n.)

The fibrous algae which grows in the dark, moist environment of trouser turn-ups.

Huttoft

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Swanibost (adj.)

Complete shagged out after a hard day having income tax explained to you.

Swanibost

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Dolgellau (n.)

The clump, or cluster, of bored, quietly enraged, mildly embarrassed men waiting for their wives to come out of a changing room in a dress shop.

Dolgellau

Monday, September 17, 2012

Budby (n.)

A nipple clearly defined through flimsy or wet material.

Budby

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Lubcroy (n.)

The telltale little lump in the top of your swimming trunks which tells you you are going to have to spend half an hour with a safety pin trying to pull the drawstring out again.

Lubcroy

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Skellow (adj.)

Descriptive of the satisfaction experienced when looking at a really good dry-stone wall.

Skellow

Friday, September 14, 2012

Goole (n.)


The puddle on the bar into which the barman puts your change.

Goole

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Stebbing (n.)


The erection you cannot conceal because you're not wearing a jacket.

Stebbing

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Bradford (n.)


A school teacher's old hairy jacket, now severely discoloured by chalk dust, ink, egg and the precipitations of unedifying chemical reactions.

Bradford

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Haugham (n.)


One who loudly informs other diners in a restaurant what kind of man he is by calling for the chef by his christian name from the lobby.

Haugham