Showing posts with label W. Show all posts
Showing posts with label W. Show all posts

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Woking (participial vb.)

Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for.

Woking

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Winkley (n.)

A lost object which turns up immediately you've gone and bought a replacement for it.

Winkley

Monday, May 7, 2012

Willimantic (adj.)

Of a person whose hearth is in the wrong place (i.e. between their legs).

Willimantic

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Widdicombe (n.)

The sort of person who impersonates trim phones.

Widdicombe

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Whissendine (n.)

The nose which occurs (often by night) in a strange house, which is too short and too irregular for you ever to be able to find out what it is and where it comes from.

Whissendine

Friday, March 2, 2012

Wivenhoe (n.)

The cry of alacrity with which a sprightly eighty-year-old breaks the ice on the lake when going for a swim on Christmas Eve.

Wivenhoe

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Winston-Salem (n.)

A person in a restaurant who suggest to their companions that they should split the cost of the meal equally, and then orders two packets of cigarettes on the bill.

Winston-Salem

Friday, January 27, 2012

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Wendens Ambo (n.)

(Veterinary term.) The operation to trace an object swallowed by a cow through all its seven stomachs. Hence, also (1) en expedition to discover where the exits are in the Barican Centre, and (2) a search through the complete works of Chaucer for all the rude bits.

Wendens Ambo

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Worgret (n.)

A kind of poltergeist which specialises in stealing new copies of the A-Z from your car.

Worgret

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Wormelow tump (n.)

Any seventeen-year-old who doesn't know about anything at all in the world other than bicycle gears.

Wormelow tump

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Wrabness (n.)

The feeling after having tried to dry oneself with a damp towel.

Wrabness

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Wroot (n.)

A short little berk who thinks that by pulling on his pipe and gazing shrewdly at you he will give the impression that he is infinitely wise and 5 ft 11 in.

Wroot

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Wyoming (participial vb.)

Moving in hurried desperation from one cubicle to another in a public lavatory trying to find one which has a lock on the door, a seat on the bowl and no brown steaks on the seat.

Wyoming

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Writtle (vb.)

Of a steel ball, to settle into a hole.

Writtle

Monday, October 10, 2011

Whasset (n.)

A business card in you wallet belonging to someone whom you have no recollection of meeting.

Whasset

Sunday, September 25, 2011

West wittering (participial vb.)

The uncontrollable twitching which breaks out when you're trying to get away from the most boring person at a party.

West wittering

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Wike (vb.)


To rip a piece of sticky plaster off your skin as fast as possible in the hope that it will (a) show how brave you are, and (b) not hurt.

Wike