Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Friday, July 9, 2010

From the Urban Dictionary of Lynne

Fancy Pants:
1. Pants appropriate for a business causal workplace
2. Contain more than one button/ slide catch
3. Enable it impossible to pee faster than a minute thirty based solely on the unbuttoning/buttoning of the pants.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

I am so thirsty I could just quaff that down...

Again- courtesy of dictionary.com:

quaff

[kwof, kwaf, kwawf] 
–verb (used without object)
1.
to drink a beverage, esp. an intoxicating one, 
copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
–verb (used with object)
2.
to drink (a beverage) copiously and 
heartily: We spent the whole evening quaffing ale.
–noun
3.
an act or instance of quaffing.
4.
a beverage quaffed.
Origin: 
1515–25;  orig. uncert.


quaffer, noun
outquaff, verb (used with object)
un·quaffed, adjective


1.  swallow, gulp, swig, guzzle. 


This week I am not sure I used it right, but I love it all the same. 

Monday, June 28, 2010

This is horrid

Horrid, is like my new favorite word. For sure. I have used it in like perfect context 4 or 5 times in the past week. I want everyone else to enjoy it as well. So here you go, from dictionary.com:

hor·rid

  [hawr-id, hor-] 
–adjective
1.
such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
2.
extremely unpleasant or disagreeable: horrid weather; She thought her uncle was horrid.
3.
Archaic shaggy or bristling; rough.