Vobster (n.)

A strain of perfectly healthy rodent which develops cancer the moment it enter a laboratory.

Vobster

Ventnor (n.)

One who, having been visited as a child by a mysterious gypsy lady, is gifted with the strange power of being able to operate the air-nozzles above aeroplane seats.

Ventnor

Valletta (n.)

On ornate head-dress or loose garment worn by a person in the belief that it renders then invisibly native and not like a tourist at all. People who don huge colonial straw collie hats with 'I Luv Lagos' on them in Nigeria, or fat solicitors from Tonbridge on holiday in Malaya who insist on appearing in the hotel lobby wearing a sarong know what we're on about.

Valletta

Virginstow (n.)

A Durex machine which doesn't have the phrase 'So was the Titanic' scrawled on it. The word has now fallen into disuse.

Virginstow

Vancouver (n.)

The technical name for one of those huge trucks with whirling brushes on the bottom used to clean streets.

Vancouver