As a tangential thread to the one I started on nice words.
Here's one on words that have undergone meaning reassignment surgery
Crepuscular - A person or persons that have become strong/ powerful and athletic by eating nothing but pancakes
Fee free to add your own
TWS
Lackadaisical - The listless, dejected attitude brought on by seeing dead flowers.
Hiatus - a cross between a hyena and a tortoise
> Hiatus - a cross between a hyena and a tortoise
how did they manage that ?
The mind boggles
Irony - Metallic (or should that be non-metallic?)
Ubiquitous -We get out of a taxi
Rappel...
The region of purgatory reserved for Vanilla Ice, Insane Clown Posse and House Of Pain.
Sheepish - What comes out of a Shewee
Traditioning - Training technique applicable to climbing, placing protection as you progress
Perspire - The act of loosing money in an uncontrolled manor.
Mannerisms - The everyday activities of people of wealth and high social standing.
A little bit crap but made me smirk
Flattery: Hillary's alter ego
> Hiatus - a cross between a hyena and a tortoise
> how did they manage that ?
> The mind boggles
They had to shell out a lot. Must be barking mad
Therapist, A barely concealed sex offender
Badgeholder, a soft tissue injury to your armroot
Fickle, a piece of preserved vegetable stuck painfully in a toothgap with sudden pain that makes you curse
Menswear - the department for uncouth adult males
Childswear - a public order offence
Womenswear, really shouldn't exist
Babywear, the toll of being a new parent
Software, underwear for knights in armour
Lassitude.
"What's that girl? Theres a group of children stuck in the old goldmine? The water is rising and you don't give a shit?"
Metrosexual - a person aroused by forms of transport
Palindrome - a friendly airport
Carabiner - soft drink made from crushed motor vehicles
Not very tasteful......
Kitchenware - and apron or chef's hat
Motorway - a graveyard for cars
Capricious - a violent goat
Marmalade - sexual gratification involving yeast based spreads.
Foolhardy
What Nelson said to Hardy when the latter thought his admiral asked for a kiss
Awestruck..... a horsebox.
Thanks to " I'm sorry..." the home of new definitions.
Catacomb - brush a moggy
Arsenal - extreme bikini wax
Sheepish - like a sheep
Daisy - a bit like a podium
Motorize - to frighten with engines
Semillon - a wine infused with Viagra. (Adapted from I’m Sorry....)
Saxophone - a mobile predominantly used for taking nutscapes.
Bondage - old enough to be 007
ISIHAC
Titillate - delayed puberty
Colonade - a fizzy enema
Rancour - A Japanese insult
(all thanks to I'm Sorry)
> ISIHAC
Yes seems everyone is cheating and using this resource , or are you suggesting that I shouldn't have bothered with the thread ?
onomatopoeia - a warning that a puppy might not be house-trained
not me, don't know what it means or what it is
Oh now I do, not familiar (an untruthful relative) with the acronymn
I heard the very first broadcast, in a snowstorm in upper Weardale, sheltering in a lambing hut made from old rolling stock. Wellies for walking boots, old school satchel as rucsack and a camping gaz stove and rice pud!
> Rappel...
> The region of purgatory reserved for Vanilla Ice, Insane Clown Posse and House Of Pain.
Abseil - Gym class special offer
> not me, don't know what it means or what it is
I would hope not too.
> Oh now I do, not familiar (an untruthful relative) with the acronymn
I'd never heard of it until this thread and I've not used it . It removes the fun and brain growing /warping subversive ( reading or singing underwater ) excise it set out to be .
:-D
> Awestruck..... a horsebox.
Awestruck - SUV belonging to a "Lady of Leisure"
Oi! Not everyone!
> Oi! Not everyone!
Sorry . I take it back .
I apologize.
Apologize - to convert to or dress as a Roman or Greek god.
Granary - ladies only old people’s home
Hullabaloo - how to greet a bear...
I believe there is a kind of establishment I can go to at night to indulge in as much broth as I can take ....
sorry that is rather an old one
Supersonic, the noise of a loud slurper consuming his first course
Algorithm, My pal has opened a new music and dance studio
Cyclops, carried out by special forces mounted on velocipedes
> Apologize - to convert to or dress as a Roman or Greek god.
Apology, expression of surprise by crews returning from the moon
Iceaxe - Alan Sugar describing what he does on the Apprentice
Loan Shark, Billy-no-mates wearing fins and swimming under water
Tangent, a decent bloke, just back from holiday
Just thought of a subcategory of words for which we really don't want to know alternative meanings.
I'll start with
Upcoming
Forthcoming
Midwifery - Part way through a fart
Stockbroker - a really clumsy shopkeeper
Dentist - a panel beater
Seamstress - I think she's rather upset
Red Leader, a skilled tradesman who believes he is still flying against the Luftwaffe
(might be a bit obscure but Lead as in metal)
Cowboy - a bullock
Impurities - very small perfections
Walnut. One who prefers to climb inside
Shunt. A quiet nasty person.
Helmet, descriptive of a very unfortunate or unpleasant encounter
Custody, said of clothes that met with an accident during the pudding course
Application, apple cooked the Louisiana way
Seesaw, what a teenager does in the bathroom mirror
Spermwhale - a cry of ecstasy
Miserable - tight fisted and wayward
> Seamstress - I think she's rather upset
Seamstress - just before your trousers split
Purgatory - to flush Liam Fox(or similar) down the toilet
Fumitory - stinking Conservative
Boycott - Lads Bed
Disquiet - hates silence
Deterred - to have a dump
Reassigned - to repeat the signature on my bum
Increase, something of the state of trousers seen in old codgers who have spent too many hours in the corner of their favourite hostelry
Summit, a Yorkshire thing.
Tangent. An agreeable suntanned fellow.
Elephant. When Ellie keels over.
Pipettes. Small pips.
Eyebrows - refering to myself looking
Vision Chips, friday tea for the TV Repair man
Fish 'n Chips, complicated electronics used by a demented nuclear scientist
Function, drill movement executed in response to the command of a terrifying drill sergeant by a nervous recruit
25 Pounder, something leaving you that leaves you feeling somewhat lighter in mind and body
Much Better, someone with a gambling problem
Blackpool Tower, someone you follow in queue, traffic, endless, if driving there on the Friday before a Bank Holiday
Tower of London, a silly American who bought London as a holiday souvenir, from a man he met in the pub
Sinister - a very naughty sibling or a village full of criminal's
> Sinister - a very naughty sibling or a village full of criminal's
Mama Straggler for whom English is not a first language, once jokingly told me I was too sinister.
the adjective she should have used was “cynical”
"Internet!", enthusiastically shouted encouragement to an attacker in a Northern local football match
Internecine, Trigonometrical diagram drawn by a mathematician sitting at a picnic
Porcupine , longed for meat meal
Interflora, another "I'm"
Aldi - a Geordie 24-hour shop (ashamed to say I first heard this one said by Jimmy Carr)
Hosiery - another name for brothel
Pubic, a cheap biro you found in church
I must admit there's been a few that I don't actually get .
I think this may be in part to regional dialect and maybe some stupidity on my part.
A jolly good thread though everyone .
I'm enjoying popping back when I think of new ones and seeing peoples additions.
Now where was I.
Message - a period of history awash with waste.
Terminator - a device for splitting time into small 6 week slots
Legal Secretary, one who is at least sixteen ... (think that's an old Punch one)
Crimson - Mr bigs male offspring
Melancholy, one and a half of your 5 a day
Belay - The reproductive act of the common Apis
Medecine, Naughty doctors having fun
Tupperware, glam clothing to go out on the pull
Germolene, a trampoline for Germans.
Edit: germaphobe, a person with a phobia of Germans.
Nightmare - A chivalrous form of transport used for jousting
Greg's Hut, a good place on the Pennine moors if you want a late night pie
PC World, watch out you speak without breaking any of the many rules
Collapse - the failure of your lower bowel
Goodbye - a bargain
Chewable - navigable by train
Awesome - How much a "Lady of Leisure" charges
Gravity - A drink of Bovril
Beakers - another name for all birds ( and the platypus )
Hologram, a cheap record player bought in the pub. When I got it home there were no works inside
Telegraph, harsh parents keeping stats on kids TV habits
Supreme, hot and piping liquid, served in the tents of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Dinner, small child which at 4am finds it has been given a loud drum for Christmas
Referendum - a posionous drug filled cigarette.
Currency - an ocean of dried grapes
Copyright - a perfectly replicating medieval scribe
Butcher - a gym addicted meathead
Microwave - a pigmys hand gesture
Waiting game - A good hard gym session involving grouse
Politician's - people who put make up on avians
Torque - Forceful one sided conversation
Wild Country, the best most amazing sex you'll ever get.
Climbing boots, you can send them out to do a route when you're not up to it yourself
Polar Bear, you can tell which end is which with the aid of a magnet
Which, a magazine for women of a certain occupation
> Wild Country, the best most amazing sex you'll ever get.
Or one that's not been washed or trimmed in a while
Understanding - A prostrate or kneeling position
Subdivision - Peter Hook and Stephen Morris
Ohm, where the electrician goes after work
Farad, how a German electronics engineer gets to work.
Entrance fee - getting shafted.
Doggie style, cannine boundary crossing.
Groundhog - Minced pork
Cotapaxi - Where Tory & Labour supporters stop trying to score Remembrance Day points off each other and agree to end that other interminable thread
Moorcock - a nymphomaniacs wish
> Doggie style, cannine boundary crossing.
Also cannine fashion wear.
And sh!ting on the floor
Parabolic - A drug enhanced soldier
Shambolic - A 20 leafed clover
Downing Street, a place where good ideas are shot down
> Downing Street, a place where good ideas are shot down
That's debatable . The good ideas bit anyway.
Meticulous - police officers dressed as clowns balancing custard on their head
so custardy officers then?
Herbicide - The murder of Parsley the Lion
Suicide - Murdering Sooty's girlfriend
Shambolic - a fake testicle
Synchronicity, naughtiness to the beat of a clock
Decision - perceiving with 10 eyes
Decision, the undoing of an incision.
Indecision, neither one or the other.
> Decision, the undoing of an incision.
> Indecision, neither one or the other.
Tabasco - a messy affair with a bill
DoMeSDOS, an operating system for small computers that kills all known data
Turpentine, where a famous highwayman rested while passing through Newcastle
Pertex - a rather attractively small and well shaped former girlfriend
Syntax, heavenly accounting system.
Outlook - Umpires review
Article - Jazzling for the male region
Particle, a frozen part, partly ice
Nautical - Something that is mainly nothing , but not quite.
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