Liffing Our Spirits

plenisette, n. A wisp of cellophane that sticks to your hand no matter how hard you try to shake it off.

lingle, n. To touch battery terminals with one's tongue.

cherry hinton, n. Remark by a girl in a bar that suggests she might be up for it.

tralee, n. The expression on the face of your cat as it enters the kitchen with a bird in its mouth.

dipple, v. To try to remove a sticky something from one hand with the other, thus causing it to get stuck to the other hand and eventually to anything else you try to remove it with.

trewoofe, n. A very thick and heavy drift of snow balanced precariously on the edge of a door porch, awaiting for what it judges to be the correct moment to fall. From the ancient Greek legend "The Trewoofe of Damocles".

nelling, v. Incessantly trying on clothes.

kingston bagpuize, n. A forty-year-old, sixteen-stone man trying to commit suicide by jogging.

boosbeck, n. The precise, queasy moment you realize you've had too much to drink.

ely, n. The first, tiniest inkling that something, somewhere, has gone terribly wrong.

wembley, n. The hideous moment of confirmation that the disaster presaged in the ely has actually struck.

goosnargh, n. Something left over from preparing or eating a meal, which you store in the fridge despite the fact that you know full well that you will never, ever use it.

guernsey, adj. Queasy but unbowed.  The kind of feeling one gets when discovering a plastic compartment in a fridge in which things are growing, usually fertilized by copious quantities of goosnargh.

high offley, n. Goosnargh three weeks later.

dunolly, n. An improvised umbrella.

Conchobhar wrote:Anybody else lingle sometimes because they like the aftertaste?

kettering, adj. from v. ketter  Obsolete. Like the flight of a butterfly.

dreikäsehochregression, (dry-KEH-zuh-hocch – reh-greh-SYOHN) v. Returning to your old school and finding everything feels so small.

geheimgangsuerlockung, (ghe-HIME-gahngs – fair-LOK-koong) n. The conviction that all old, large homes must contain secret passages.

bordley, adj. Descriptive of the glazed remembrance, about three-quarters of the way through the game, that you've never really liked Monopoly that much.

anadarko, n. A spin-off movie that would have been better off left un-spun.

scurlage, n. A duck-web of snot caused by sneezing into your hand.

jack o'lobotomy, v. Removing pulp and seeds from a pumpkin.

duntish, n. Mentally incapacitated by a severe hangover.

choconiverous, adj. The tendency when eating a chocolate Easter bunny to bite off the head first.

longbenton, n. One who harbors a grudge for the rest of their life.