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12-16-2013, 11:52 AM
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pronk cider so rough as to be undrinkable. 'This batch made from
GM apples is pure pronk'.
looper in cricket a ball that confuses the batsman by looping the loop in flight 'That looper really had Clarke's eyes crossing before it bowled him'
booly equivalent of geek in mathematical world. 'He's a real booly. Takes problems to bed to solve.'
jaunce to self-destruct through nerves 'Cook really jaunced his chances with that golden duck'
Er . . .
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12-16-2013, 12:03 PM
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So it is too, Jeremy. Pity. Loofer is a much better word. But looper will do. Loo pervert eh?
I read the Sun at the hairdresser's. Of course I know who Harry Styles is. A first order prat.
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12-18-2013, 04:01 AM
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Bill Greenwell, eye-witness to an actual copy of the Oldie, informs me that 'raffinose' is one word.
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12-18-2013, 05:59 AM
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Quite right, Bazza. I get the Oldie too but didn't bother to check. Thank you.
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12-18-2013, 03:40 PM
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So sorry, folks, that was my mistake.
I get the results sent to me by one of The Oldie staff as a pdf, and words with "fi" in them always get split apart, for some reason, like "fi nally" for example; I transfer the whole text to a Word document and delete the spaces, but I missed that one! I've now corrected it at the top of the thread.
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12-31-2013, 04:53 PM
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Well, blast. I already sent an entry with "raffinose" as two words.
RAFFI NOSE: Able to find truffles under the snow. "That there's the most raffi nose pig I ever had."
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01-10-2014, 12:45 PM
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What kind of maumy pronk would have set a competition like this? I haven't entered it - I've more than enough to do without responding to every booly looper who thinks I should jaunce my poor old tytyfer on such rubbish. Hendship is one thing, and I'm all for it. But I refuse to get down on my knees to raffinose the judges.
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01-10-2014, 03:15 PM
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For the sake of hendship, I support Brian, he's not such a pronk as he seems. I'll not raffinose my talents on a booly of a looper like this, I'll tytyfer the next maumy in the hope of a successful jaunce.
Last edited by Sylvia Fairley; 01-10-2014 at 04:04 PM.
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01-11-2014, 04:45 PM
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Those are great, Sylvia and Brian! I almost lost my loopers laughing!
Sorry not to have had time to enter this one. The only definition I managed was:
tytyfer: n. referring to a man’s hairy chest. Some gentlemen prefer to depilate their tytyfer.
...but that was probably too much of a "low meaning" for this comp anyway.
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