"khasi n pron. “kah-zee” toilet: I’m away to the khasi to drain the lizard. Less likely in more refined conversation: Excuse me, madam - could you direct me to the khasi? It may be derived from Arabic. This might not be true. People lie to me all the time."
Sc. and n. Eng. regional : whining, complaining, moping; peevish
"That useless peenging thing of a lassie there, at Ellangowan.. ."
- Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (1815)
"And he says, I've sold some neeps - you ken he had that girny peenging voice - I've sold a cartload of neeps to a chiel in London, but he wants me to deliver them, and I don't ken where it is."
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Danni commented on the word pom
From pommy - acronym for Prisoners Of Mother England (pome) - about those convicts shipped off
August 27, 2009
Danni commented on the word lurve
Oh! Grant, you and Martha did this one a couple of times on your show! How about these: http://www.lurvemag.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lurve&page=2
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lurve
I'll keep checking back!!
Danni
July 12, 2009
Danni commented on the word ukelele
It's a musical instrument like a mini guitar. Makes me think of George Formby 'cleanin winders'
July 3, 2009
Danni commented on the word marque's
"khasi n pron. “kah-zee” toilet: I’m away to the khasi to drain the lizard. Less likely in more refined conversation: Excuse me, madam - could you direct me to the khasi? It may be derived from Arabic. This might not be true. People lie to me all the time."
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July 3, 2009
Danni commented on the word opentick
http://home. comcast.net/ ~wwftd
prob. an imitative alteration of whinging
Sc. and n. Eng. regional : whining, complaining, moping; peevish
"That useless peenging thing of a lassie there, at Ellangowan.. ."
- Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (1815)
"And he says, I've sold some neeps - you ken he had that girny peenging voice - I've sold a cartload of neeps to a chiel in London, but he wants me to deliver them, and I don't ken where it is."
- Duncan McLean, Blackden (1994)
July 1, 2009
Danni commented on the word lurve
teen magazine / humorous spelling of "love"
June 21, 2009