Wednesday Words: Before I Forget

Almost forgot this silliness again.

Dean gave us the following definitions:

graspe- what Chaucer does when he's hanging off a cliff.
evibirp - a new Wonka soft drink that leads to perpetual belching.

And Randal said,
fleabile: an extreme state of being nubile.

My takes were as follows:

ledipern- an obscure form of German pornography featuring people dressed in lederhosen only.

fleabile- what the parasitic insect spouts when it's really worked up. Later applied to Beck, Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, etc.

graspe- how a Canadian will ask you to hold something firmly.

sknessl- (the k is silent) A Swiss imperative, requesting that you muffle your sneezing.

Also, new feature at the bottom, based on a new-style capcha I confront on face book, and that I heartily loath...
And here's the new game: take the following words and create a complete sentence with these two words adjacent to each other in the same order. Punctuation between the words is permitted (and you can remove the dash below if you wish), but no new words may be inserted between them.

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Almost forgot. Randal Graves gave us two definitions:
-nonpolo, a derogatory term used by the upper crust to their social inferiors.
-stablye, a state that occurs after the lye stops burning your flesh. (I was not going to define this one, but say, "Most of us have two. Marty Feldman only had one")
And Mel sent a good one:
-Wooter is obviously the guy at sporting events who goes "Woot! Woot!" (to which I responded, "I always wondered what thet guy's name was.")

With that, here's this week's words:

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Only Dean submitted definitions for last week's edition, so I guess he sweeps it.

hydromes- what you put around your underwater garden.

imbities- tiny imbeciles

gambal- betting everything!

Gotta have definitions for all of them (why, yes, in fact, I am writing a book) so here's my take on the remaining two.

lionsts- why the visitor to the big cat exhibit got mauled. (lions t's)

gogiotly- Holly's original last name before they decided "Golightly" was more titillating.

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Almost forgot it was Wednesday, but don't worry: I remembered. So per request, here are my favorite defintions from last week's edition (there are a few more good ones in the comments):

dubtrala, when you come crawling back home at 6am after an all-night boozefest, à la Dubya. (Randal, and very close to my take on the word)

(Close second) - a reggae remix of a song from an early Disney movie (Anonymous)

sudlibbi- Leftists from southern Germany. (Dean)

boodeval- the process by which something scary loses it's fright value (devalues) if it's repeated too many times. (Dean)

anooks - a movement for truth in ethnographic filmmaking, formed in reaction to famed but highly staged documentary "Nanook of the North." (Anonymous; my definition was "street talk used by a guy to describe an extended period of involuntary celebacy: "I been anooks fer over a month, man!)

ingedup- what a sleeping drunk says when you try to wake him (Anonymous- this one becomes clearer if you space out the first two letters: I n gedup)

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I got two comments on last week's words, both saying they'd like me to choose my favorites. I had hoped to avoid that option, but the masses have spoken. So here are Dean's submissions. Mel?

irolleg - "Igor, what are you doing for Easter?"

enalayew - Mario saying "He will nail you."

and here are three more to fill out the five:

goestick- what all the fashionable witches will be riding this Halloween.

wednesso- the steam-pressed coffee many customers drink on this day of the week.

pankessi- the sound pancake batter makes when it hits a skillet that's preheated to the perfect temperature.

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Annnnd... it's Wednesday again! Thanks to last week's participants, who came up with some fun suggestions for additions to this crazy language we call English. I do have a few questions for you all... would this be more fun if I actually listed all the entries that came in for the previous post, or is the link back to the short post and comments enough? Would it be more fun if I withheld the comments until the next post, then put them all up at once? I know that sometimes I just feel, "Wow, there's no way I'm going to top that one!" then don't even try. How about voting on the suggestions? Just tossing out some ideas here... I'd like to get a few more folks playing. The two or three players we get each week come up with such great definitions, it seems there must be even more.

And with that quick quiz, here are this week's five would-be words:

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Oops! Forgot to post this feature last week! Oh well, it's Wednesday again, so here's the next five would-be words. Answers to the last edition can be seen in the comments here... we had some good ones.

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No players in last week's round, so here's a couple of my daffynitions...

numpars: an adjusted number of strokes expected to get the ball in the hole during particularly cold weather.

calever: a simple machine that exchanges distance for force, used to affect tectonic events. "Give me a place to stand and a calever, and I'll shove that liberal state into the ocean."

And here's the next set for your pondering and perplexity...

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Ben had a couple of good definitions last week:

Dicatess- noun: 1) A female dictator. 2) An overbearing girlfriend.
Trarroma- noun: Trauma suffered from heavily applied old lady perfume.
I would add that doodi is a word that comes up in the context of potty training: "Did you do your doodi?"

Without further adoodi, here are the next five.

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Here's a new set of words awaiting definitions. Take a moment to click over and read Dean's definitions for the last batch... he ran the bunch. I particularly liked the meaning of "sealeta," and I had been under the misimpression that "dessinc" was where one did deddishes, but I think "Dessert, Inc." is probably more appropriate for our times.