The Meaning of Liff

Ardcrony (n.)

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A remote acquaintance passed off as 'a very good friend of mine' by someone trying to impress people.

Ardcrony

Symond’s Yat (n.)

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The little spoonful inside the lid of a recently opened boiled egg.

Symond’s Yat

Hunsingore (n.)

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Medieval ceremonial brass horn with which the successful execution of an araglin (q.v.) is trumpeted from the castle battlements.

Hunsingore

Trantlemore (vb.)

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To make a noise like a train crossing a set of points.

Trantlemore

Beccles (n.)

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The small bone buttons placed in bacon sandwiches by unemployed guerrilla dentist.

Beccles

Scraptoft (n.)

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The absurd flap of hair a vain and balding man grows long above one ear to comb it to the other ear.

Scraptoft

Clunes (pl.n.)

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People who just won't go.

Clunes

Burlingjobb (n.archaic)

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A seventeenth-century crime by which excrement is thrown into the street from a ground-floor window.

Burlingjobb

Pudsey (n.)

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The curious-shaped flat wads of dough left on a kitchen table after someone has been cutting scones out of it.

Pudsey

Skenfrith (n.)

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The flakes of athlete's foot found inside socks.

Skenfrith

Botusfleming (n. medical)

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A small, long-handled steel trowel used by surgeons to remove the contents of a patient's nostrils prior to a sinus operation.

Botusfleming

Huttoft (n.)

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The fibrous algae which grows in the dark, moist environment of trouser turn-ups.

Huttoft

Swanibost (adj.)

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Complete shagged out after a hard day having income tax explained to you.

Swanibost

Dolgellau (n.)

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The clump, or cluster, of bored, quietly enraged, mildly embarrassed men waiting for their wives to come out of a changing room in a dress shop.

Dolgellau

Budby (n.)

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A nipple clearly defined through flimsy or wet material.

Budby

Lubcroy (n.)

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The telltale little lump in the top of your swimming trunks which tells you you are going to have to spend half an hour with a safety pin trying to pull the drawstring out again.

Lubcroy

Skellow (adj.)

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Descriptive of the satisfaction experienced when looking at a really good dry-stone wall.

Skellow

Goole (n.)

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The puddle on the bar into which the barman puts your change.

Goole

Stebbing (n.)

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The erection you cannot conceal because you're not wearing a jacket.

Stebbing

Bradford (n.)

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A school teacher's old hairy jacket, now severely discoloured by chalk dust, ink, egg and the precipitations of unedifying chemical reactions.

Bradford

Haugham (n.)

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One who loudly informs other diners in a restaurant what kind of man he is by calling for the chef by his christian name from the lobby.

Haugham

Spittal of Glenshee (n.)

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That which has to be cleaned off castle floors in the morning after a bagpipe contest or vampire attack.

Spittal of Glenshee

Ardslignish (adj.)

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Adjective which describes the behaviour of Sellotape when you are tired.

Ardslignish

Trewoofe (n.)

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A very thick and heavy drift of snow balanced precariously on the edoge of a door porch waiting for what it judges to be the correct moment to fall. From the ancient Greek legend 'The Trewoofe of Damocles'.

Trewoofe

Simprim (n.)

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The little movement of false modesty by which a girl with a cavernous visible cleavage pulls her skirt down over her knees.

Simprim