Showing posts with label meaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meaning. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Wicklow-Centric Meaning of Liff definitions #19

Ballard (n.)

A stolid and truculent commuter who, with malice aforethought, sits in the aisle seat on a bus or train thus rendering the window seat unusable as anything other than a storage area for their coat, bag, dog or body odour.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Wicklow-Centric Meaning of Liff definitions #18

Nun's Cross (n.)

The methodical interruption of the former part of the 'Hail Mary' - particularly the word 'Jesus' - with the responsorial latter part, perpetrated by elderly and impatient Catholics during the praying of a Rosary.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #17

Scurlogue (n.)

A haggard and desiccated person of indeterminate age who is enduring a meritorious bout of Stoops (q.v.).

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #16

Stoops (n.)

A dialectical term describing the condition of being beset by Lackareagh (q.v.), the severity of which is in proportion to how Roddenagh (q.v.) said condition is.

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #15

Roddenagh (adj.)

Of the corrosivity of a Lackareagh (q.v.) 

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #14

Lackareagh (n.)

A profoundly anti-social bowel movement.

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #13

Doody's Bottoms (n.pl)

The breed of potato used to make the starchy and irresolute chips served in plastic punnets from mobile vans at sporting events and outside night clubs.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #12

Knockadoo (n.)

A willful act of violence disguised as a group dance, wherein the instigators put their arms around each other's shoulders and dance in a circle in the full knowledge that other innocent dancers will join the melee and knock the living daylights out of everyone else on the floor. Quite often perpetrated at birthday parties and wedding receptions where the intended victims are trapped inside the circle. Similar to a Coolafunshoge (q.v.), but with malice aforethought.

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #11

Coolafunshoge (n.)

A Coolafancy (q.v.) that catches on and causes the floor to be filled with drunken clodhoppers. Most popular amongst hen parties and victorious football players or supporters.

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #9

Seskin (n.)

An ill-fitting, tonsure-effect, novelty wig worn by inebriated revelers at Halloween parties and, inexplicably, occasional county GAA games.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Monday, February 20, 2012

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #6

Curravanish (adj.)

Being self-conscious about the smell in your hotel room when room service arrives with your breakfast.

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #5

Macreddin (n.)

A self-conscious and economical crossing of oneself undertaken in public; often in conjunction with a Tomnahealy (q.v.)

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #4

Tomnahealy (n.)

An unintelligible burst of prayer muttered by devout Catholics on public transport as they pass a church, graveyard, ambulance, or anything at all that looks like it might have something to do with religion or death. Often accompanied by a Macreddin (q.v.)

Friday, February 17, 2012

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #3

Coolafancy (n.)

A hideously embarrassing dance invented spontaneously by a mildly drunk couple which they imagine is tremendously impressive to onlookers in the disco.

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #2

Tinahely (n.)

The sudden urge that overtakes perfectly honest people to steal a nice, weighty piece of cutlery. Can also be applied to the penchant for misappropriation of novelty branded glasses and ashtrays from public houses and other hostelries.

Wicklow-centric Meaning of Liff definitions #1

Newtownmountkennedy (n.)

A particularly randy and fecund ram which is responsible for siring most of the lambs in a given flock of sheep.