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Default The Oldie 'Definitions' comp results

Congratulations to Carolyn and Adrian for wins this month. I'm definitely adopting Carolyn's "pronk" -- except I pronk my toast very soon after it's gone into the toaster as I like it very lightly done; if it's the slightest bit burnt it goes in the bin!

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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxThe Oldie Competition
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxby Tessa Castro


IN COMPETITION NO 172, you were invited to consider the unpleasant word of 2013, twerk, and supply meanings, not necessarily low ones, for eight other words, and exemplifications of them.
Goodness, I laughed. The entries were not in sackloads, but they were entertaining. The words in question were real ones. Here are their true meanings. Booly: a temporary fold used by wandering Irish drovers. Jaunce: to prance as a horse. Tytyfer: the name of some small bird. Maumy: mellow, soft and insipid, mild, humid. Pronk: fool, an idiot, an ineffectual or effeminate person. Looper: the larva of any geometrid moth. Raffi nose: a sugar consisting of galactose, glucose, and fructose units. Hendship: courtesy, kindness.
Congratulations to those below who win £5 for each definition printed, with the bonus Chambers Biographical Dictionary going to Paul Elmhirst.

Booly: a trans-sexual bovine. ‘That ain’t no cow, nor bull neither, that’s a booly.’
Jaunce: The movement of a lady’s bosom when in a hurry. ‘Is that a jauncey lass or are those fighting cubs?’
Tytyfer: Australian cricket slang for the vicious bouncer. ‘Give him a bloody tytyfer, Mitchie.’
Maumy: the Geordie name for a swollen bleeding nose. ‘Why aye, d’ye wan a maumy neb ye wee bastard?’
Raffinose: said of an ageing roué who (mistakenly) considers himself still attractive to women. ‘Take your creepy hands off me, you raffinose reprobate.’
Hendship: the camaraderie of a hen night bender. ‘Hendship’s, like, not minding thedribble of vomit when Tracey falls asleep on my shoulder on the way home.’
Paul Elmhirst

Booly: describes a crowd unimpressed by a performance. ‘They went all booly on me last night.’
Jaunce: a fashionably dingy shade of yellow paint. ‘I suggest Jaunce for the walls and Slug Sweat on the ceiling.’
Looper: family code for someone who leaves the ‘bathroom’ disordered. ‘If Smithers wants the lav, offer him the one by the stables; he’s a dreadful looper.’
Pronk: the button on a toaster for ejecting toast quickly. ‘Darling, pronk the toast before we’re deafened by the fire alarm.’
Hendship: a society of eleven members only. ‘John’s been elected to the raffia-work hendship: we’re terribly thrilled.’
Carolyn Thomas-Coxhead

Jaunce: loud, camp costume favoured by antique dealers. ‘Sell it in full jaunce and you’ll be able to charge 25 per cent more for the Welsh dresser.’
Tytyfer: humiliating hat forced on prep school pupils suffering from a stammer. ‘Two years they had him wearing a tytyfer at Stowe; now he’s Immigration spokesman for Ukip.’
Maumy: the consistency of cheap white bread after it has been chewed several times. ‘Get the bread nice and maumy and the ducks will eat it.’
Looper: bore whose conversation invariably loops back to where it started. ‘Sorry I’m late; the committee included that dreadful old looper Henderson.’
Raffinose: sculptors’ term for a lived-in face. ‘Having sculpted W H Auden, Jeffrey Bernard and Richard Ingrams, Gerald specialises in the raffinose.’
Adrian Fry

Booly: the spare tyre above a pot belly. ‘To shake your booly means to wobble this section whilst striving to keep the belly still.’
Jaunce: a cooking term for squeezing a lemon provocatively. ‘To jaunce like Nigella.’
Tytyfer: to stroke a hat. ‘She had an overwhelming urge to tytyfer the beret.’
Pronk: acronym for public relations office narcissistic know-all. ‘When he said he was a spin doctor she knew he was a pronk.’
Looper: teenage-speak for a ‘dad’ dancer. ‘Look at him. What a looper.’
Fay Dickinson

Booly: lachrymose because unwell. ‘I’m feeling booly, I must be getting man flu.’
Maumy: splodgy, soft and fat. ‘After six kids Beverly’s got really maumy.’
Looper: n. one who peers under the doors of public toilets. ‘Look out there’s a looper on the loose.’
Mary Hodge

Booly: a lint ball. ‘I had to pick off the boolies on my sweater before I went out to the party.’
Elizabeth Brassington

Booly: prolonged whingeing noise. ‘He’s a lovely toddler, but all that booly drives us mad.’
Judith Young

Looper: dribbler (football). ‘The winger pulled out all the tricks from his looper’s locker.’
Keith Boughey

Jaunce: a yawn of jaw-breaking potential ‘Downton’s become such a jaunce Miles has stopped watching.’
Maumy: the moist, unbaked central section often found in home-baked cakes. ‘I bought Mrs Huggins’s fruit cake at the fête and it was nearly all maumy.’
D A Prince
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