Word Of The Day

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Kakorrhaphiophobia Noun

the fear of failure or defeat. We all suffer this one on here !!

Is that where, "I'm going to kak my pants" originates from?

[Altobelli]

KAK

South Africanism for Sh!t Pronounced: KUK


Excuse me while I go take a kak.
You speak more kak than Goerge Bush.
Kak in your eye poes!

From The Urban Dictionary.

[Altobelli]

WILLOWWACKS noun (wil-oh-waks)

noun

(1) New England. a wooded, uninhabited area.

Quote:

They couldn't believe anyone could just walk out of the willowwacks, Navy Seal or not.
Aaron Gwyn, Wynne's War, 2014.

[SERVERNOTRESPONDING]

GABELLE noun

- A tax on salt.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

GABELLE noun

- A tax on salt.

Well, they tax just about everything else..!

[Altobelli]

CRAMBO noun (kram-boh)

noun

(1) Inferior rhyme.

(2)A game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a word or a line of verse given by another.

Quote:
"Then your worship understands crambo?" said the squire. "Better than you imagine, answered the knight, as you will see when you carry from me a letter to my mistress Dulcinea del Toboso, written in verse from top to bottom.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), The Adventures of Don Quixote, translated by Tobias Smollett, 1755.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I was on the London Tube on Wednesday going from Euston to Oxford Circus, my gosh they know how to CRAMBO them in those carriages!

[Altobelli]

I was on the London Tube on Wednesday going from Euston to Oxford Circus, my gosh they know how to CRAMBO them in those carriages!

I'd forgotten how busy the Tube and trains were TEC.

I had to go to Blackfriars last Wednesday and Thursday on a course, got the train, going in at 6:30 in the morning was a doddle, coming home from Blackfriars at tea time was murder, all 8 carriages full, so I pretended to be a Southerner and barged my way in.

[Altobelli]

LATERIGRADE adjective (lat-er-i-greyd)

adjective

(1) Having a sideways manner of moving, as a crab.

Quotes:
Not with the blunt and clumsy directness here set forth, but with concealed approach, with laterigrade advance and retrogression, and with antennal deftness as of an emmet feeling its way in the midst of supposed enemies.
Henry Christopher McCook, The Latimers: A Tale of the Western Insurrection of 1794, 1897.

[Altobelli]

IGNEOUS adjective (ig-nee-uh s)

adjective

(1) Of, relating to, or characteristic of fire.
(2)Geology. produced under conditions involving intense heat, as rocks of volcanic origin or rocks crystallized from molten magma.

Quote:

In the distance, an igneous flash spread silently through the clouds, flaring in great yellow pools, lighting the desert floor and the cactus and mesquite and the greenery that was trying to bloom along a riverbed that never held water exept during the monsoon season.
James Lee Burke, Feast Day of Fools, 2011.