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Bumbershoot noun

(1) Informal: Often Facetious. an umbrella.
Citations

Quotes

Don't try to hurry the job--it may take hours of intermittent attention to put such a bumbershoot back in working order. Next time, be sure the umbrella is dry before you close it.
-- "How to Repair an Umbrella," Popular Science , April 1957

Considering that he presented nearly two linebackers' worth of surface area to the rain, he would have needed a bumbershoot the size of a beach umbrella to shelter himself completely.
-- Dean Koontz, The Face , 2003

Origin

Bumbershoot entered English in the late 1800's. Bumbershoot- is a facetious alteration of umbrella and-shoot is a reselling of -chute from parachute.

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Winnet

Top Definition. Winnet picker. A person who picks small dried peices of poo from their anal beard. Oh, no! I have winnets tied up in my bum fluff, I will have to look in the yellow pages for a winnet picker.

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Winnet

Top Definition. Winnet picker. A person who picks small dried peices of poo from their anal beard. Oh, no! I have winnets tied up in my bum fluff, I will have to look in the yellow pages for a winnet picker.

Where do you get these strange/odd/off the wall but unique words alf ?

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Where do you get these strange/odd/off the wall but unique words alf ?

Alto, it's because Alf lives in a world of strange/odd/off the wall dudes and dudesses.

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Alto, it's because Alf lives in a world of strange/odd/off the wall dudes and dudesses.

I'm sure Mrs Alf has a lot to do with it Terrier.

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SHRIVE verb (shrahyv)

verb
1. to grant absolution to (a penitent).
2. to impose penance on (a sinner).
3. to hear the confession of (a person).
4. Archaic. to hear confessions.
5. Archaic. to go to or make confession; confess one's sins, as to a priest.

Quotes
Father Hugo says that in time of war, even if there is no priest to shrive you, your sins can be forgiven this way.
--*Diana Gabaldon,*Dragonfly in Amber, 1992

"Shrive me quickly, then," she said, laughing. "Now, without confession? Would you have me read your thoughts and give penance?"
--*H. Bedford-Jones,*"The Mardi Gras Mystery," Short Stories, August 1920


Origin
Shrive is a borrowing from Latin scrībere “to write, draw” and occurs in all the Germanic languages except Gothic, e.g., Old Norse skrifa “to write, draw,” Old High German scrîban, German schreiben. Old English scrīfan and Middle English shriven, schrifen mean “to impose a penance on (a penitent)” and by extension “to hear (someone’s) confession, absolve (someone).” Shrive entered English before 900.

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BILBOES
PLURAL NOUN

An iron bar with sliding shackles, formerly used for confining a prisoner's ankles.

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BILBOES
PLURAL NOUN

An iron bar with sliding shackles, formerly used for confining a prisoner's ankles.

I'm sure Turfmoorspirit knows about the above

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DUDGEON noun (duhj-uh n)

noun
1. a feeling of offense or resentment; anger: We left in high dudgeon.

Quotes
We had only been married three weeks and she had already walked out in high dudgeon five or six times. I could never understand what I did to put her in high dudgeon, but whatever it was I always felt utterly to blame.
--*Larry McMurtry,*All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, 1972

Carson bent, showing patches on the back of faded clothes, clawed the air at one side of him without turning his head, and spoke with injured tones of imperial dudgeon.
--*Raymond Knister,*White Narcissus, 1929


Origin
Dudgeon entered English in the 1560s and is of uncertain origin.

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DORYPHORE
NOUN

rare
A pedantic and annoyingly persistent critic.

Theres a few on this forum at times !!