Showing posts with label F. Show all posts
Showing posts with label F. Show all posts

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Frosses (pl.n.)

The lecherous looks exchanged between sixteen-year-olds at a party given by someone's parents.

Frosses

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Forsinain (n. archaic)

The right of the lord of the manor to molest dwarves on their birthdays.

Forsinain

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Foindle (vb.)

To queue-jump very discreetly by working one's way up the line without being spotted doing so.

Foindle

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Fiunary (n.)

The safe place you put something and then forget where it was.

Fiunary

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Farnham (n.)

The feeling you get about four o'clock in the afternoon when you haven't got enough done.

Farnham

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Farduckmanton (n. archaic)

An ancient edict, mysteriously omitted from the Domesday Book, requiring that the feeding of fowl on village ponds should be carried out equitably.

Farduckmanton

Monday, March 5, 2012

Frolesworth (n.)

Measure. The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn't think you've a complete moron.

Frolesworth

Monday, January 2, 2012

Greeley (n.)

Someone who continually annoys you by continually apologizing for annoying you.

Greeley

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Feakle (vb.)

To make facial expressions similar to those that old gentlemen make to young girls in the playground.

Feakle

Friday, November 25, 2011

Frimley (n.)

Exaggerated carefree saunter adopted by Norman Wisdom as an immediate prelude to dropping down an open manhole.

Frimley

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Fovant (n.)

A taxi driver's gesture, a raised hand pointed out of the window which purports to mean 'thank you' and actually means 'fuck off out of the way'.

Fovant

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Framlingham (n.)

A kind of burglar alarm usage. It is cunningly designed so that it can ring at full volume in the street without apparently disturbing anyone. Other types of framlingams are burglar alarms fitted to business premises in residential areas, which go off as a matter of regular routine at 5.31 p.m. on a Friday evening and do not get turned off til 9.20 a.m. on Monday morning.

Framlingham

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Fulking (participial vb.)

Pretending not to be in when the carol-singers come round.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Flodigarry (n. Scots)


An ankle-length gabardine or oilskin tarpaulin worn by deep-sea herring fishermen in Arbroath and publicans in Glasgow.

Flodigarry

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Finuge (vb.)


In any division of foodstuffs equally between several people, to give yourself the extra slice left over.

Finuge

Friday, August 12, 2011

Fring (n.)

The noise made by light bulb which has just shone its last.

Fring

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Frating green (adj.)

The shade of green which is supposed to make you feel comfortable in hospitals, industrious in schools and uneasy in police stations.

Frating green

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Fraddam (n.)

The small awkward-shaped piece of cheese which remains after grating a large regular-shaped piece of cheese and enables you to cut your fingers.

Fraddam

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Farrancassidy (n.)

A long and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to undo someone's bra.

Farrancassidy