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Lees

A list of 142 words by mollusque.

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Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other takes on vestiges and nonsense.

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  • bilby caput mortuum Jun 5, 2012

  • ruzuzu What a great list! Mar 8, 2012

  • bilby crap-cake. Dec 10, 2008

  • reesetee I will, I promise. As soon as you stop asking me to. ;-> Nov 27, 2007

  • uselessness Oh, good. Forget I ever said anything, then.

    No really. Forget I ever said anything. Nov 27, 2007

  • reesetee Hey, thanks for the tip of the hat up there! And thanks also for not including smegma. Uselessness? Eeew. Nov 27, 2007

  • mollusque Thanks for all the comments! I'm collecting names for things that are byproducts with little or no value. "Scree" fits, but "smegma" and "lagan" don't. Smegma might be gross, but it has a biological function, like mucus or sweat. (I specifically excluded synonyms of excrement, which could be fertile grounds for another list, although dreck and feculence snuck onto this one.)

    Lagan might fit on Valse's Leftovers , which includes things that might be of value. (Of course some of the things on my list might prove to be valuable as raw materials for producing biofuels.) Nov 27, 2007

  • bilby See also lagan. My understanding is that the olde English meaning of lagan included anything valuable that had sunk to the bottom of the sea and was therefore deemed to belong to the Crown. Nov 26, 2007

  • oroboros I don't see scree. That's a good one. Nov 26, 2007

  • uselessness Gross. Can I anonymously suggest smegma? I can't? Crap. Nov 26, 2007

  • chained_bear Yeah, really. Eeew! Cool list! Nov 26, 2007

  • reesetee What a great list! Who knew there were so many terms for dreck? :-) Nov 26, 2007