Showing posts with label B. Show all posts
Showing posts with label B. Show all posts

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Beccles (n.)

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

Beccles

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

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

Monday, September 17, 2012

Budby (n.)

A nipple clearly defined through flimsy or wet material.

Budby

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

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Benburb (n.)


The sort of man who becomes a returning officer.

Benburb

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Brecon (n. anatomical term)

That part of the toenail which is designed to snag on nylon sheets.

Brecon

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Burleston (n., vb.)

That peculiarly tuneless humming and whistling adopted by people who are extremely angry.

Burleston

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Berepper (n.)

The irrevocable and sturdy fart released in the presence of royalty, which sounds quite like a small motorbike passing by (but not enough to be confused with one).

Berepper

Friday, August 17, 2012

Botcherby (n.)

The principle by which British roads are signposted.

Botcherby

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Berkhamsted (n.)

The massive three-course midmorning blow-out enjoyed by a dieter who has already done his or her slimming duty by having a teaspoonful of cottage cheese for breakfast.

Berkhamsted

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Bures (n.medical)

The scabs on knees and elbows formed by a compulsion to make love on cheap Habitat floor-matting.

Bures

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Brymbo (n.)

The single unappetising bun left in a baker's shop after four p.m.

Brymbo

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Burwash (n.)

The pleasurable cool sloosh of puddle water over the toes of your gumboots.

Burwash

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Bishop’s Caundle (n.)

An opening gambit before a game of chess whereby the missing pieces are replaced by small ornaments from the mantelpiece.

Bishop’s Caundle

Monday, July 30, 2012

Bursledon (n.)

The bluebottle one is too tired to get up and start, but not tired enough to sleep through.

Bursledon

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Blithbury (n.)

A look someone gives you by which you become aware that they're much too drunk to have understood anything you've said to them in the last twenty minutes.

Blithbury

Monday, July 23, 2012

Burbage (n.)

The sound made by a liftful of people all trying to breathe politely through their noses.

Burbage

Friday, July 20, 2012

Bolsover (n.)

One of those brown plastic trays with bumps on, placed upside down in boxes of chocolates to make you think you're-getting two layers.

Bolsover

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Brisbane (n.)

A perfectly reasonable explanation (Such as the one offered by a person with a gurgling cough which has nothing to do with the fact that they smoke fifty cigarettes a day.)

Brisbane