"I've been seeing Dockwra about his shippon, sir" he said. "It's not in nearly as bad condition as he makes out. A bag of cement and a yard of aggregate should fix it."Docken dead - John Trench, 1953
The ?phonetic aid is faulty - for a start off, you can't have an accented schwa, and in fact you have two stressed syllables. I don't know what the hyphens symbolise. In fact I don't really know what your ?phonetic is supposed to be. In IPA it would be either /ʌneks'pɜ:gətɔ:ri:/ or /ʌnekspɜ:'geɪtəri:/ depending on where you're from.
... or Shafto Bobby Shafto's gone to sea, Silver buckles on his knee; He'll come back and marry me, Bonny Bobby Shafto! Bobby Shafto's bright and fair, Combing down his yellow hair; He's my love for ever mair, Bonny Bobby Shafto!
johnmperry commented on the word rooves
plural of roof
Oct 28, 2009
johnmperry commented on the word sphinges
Plural of sphinx
Sep 24, 2009
johnmperry commented on the word sphinges
Plural of sphinx
Sep 24, 2009
johnmperry commented on the word sphinx
Plural can be sphinges
Sep 24, 2009
johnmperry commented on the word chinese wedding cake
British slang for rice pudding.
Sep 6, 2009
johnmperry commented on the word burma road
British slang for rice pudding.
Sep 6, 2009
johnmperry commented on the word comedy shorts
A Chinese teacher called me to find out what this meant. He was thinking about funny underpants.
Apr 23, 2009
johnmperry commented on the word litmus test
My Chemistry master at school had a little poem:
Blue to red, a-sed
Red to blue, alkalu
Sep 27, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word shippon
"I've been seeing Dockwra about his shippon, sir" he said. "It's not in nearly as bad condition as he makes out. A bag of cement and a yard of aggregate should fix it."Docken dead - John Trench, 1953
Sep 27, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word figgot
20 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word pethera-bumfit
19 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word tethera-bumfit
18 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word tan-a-bumfit
17 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word yan-a-bumfit
16 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word pethera-dik
14 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word tethera-dik
13 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word tan-a-dik
12 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word yan-a-dik
11 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word dik
10 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word covera
9 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word hovera
8 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word lethera
7 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word sethera
6 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word pimp
5 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word pethera
4 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word tethera
3 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word tan
2 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word yan
North of England sheep counting jargon
1 Yan
2 Tan
3 Tethera
4 Pethera
5 Pimp
6 Sethera
7 Lethera
8 Hovera
9 Covera
10 Dik
11 Yan-a-dik
12 Tan-a-dik
13 Tethera-dik
14 Pethera-dik
15 Bumfit
16 Yan-a-bumfit
17 Tan-a-bumfit
18 Tethera-bumfit
19 Pethera-bumfit
20 Figgot
Sep 26, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word towhead
He was tall, slim-hipped, hairlessly muscled in the chest and back. towheaded and perpetually bronzed as those of Norwegian extraction can be.
Sep 16, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word petard
see pétomane
Sep 9, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word pétomane
French - péter = to fart
Sep 9, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word marmalade
... and there was me thinking it's a cure for seasickness - mal de mer
Sep 8, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word simoleon
Also used in "Who Shot Roger Rabbit?"
Sep 8, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word schadenfreude
If this doesn't bring on definitive schadenfreude, I don't know what will!
Sep 8, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word spool
Simultaneous
Peripheral
Operation
OnLine
Sep 8, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word hasp
Very old operating system element:
Houston
Automated
Spooling
Program
Interesting for its double acronym: "spool" is/was "simultaneous peripheral operation online".
Sep 8, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word hoise
to hoise (third-person singular simple present hoises, present participle hoising, simple past and past participle hoised or hoist)
Sep 7, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word petard
It's not hoisted c_b, it's hoised (or hoist) - p/p/ of hoise
Sep 7, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word gambodge
It's a colour
Derived from Cambodia?
Sep 7, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word admiral robert shaftoe
Tautology gangerh - pdrness seems to be defined as quality of pdr
Sep 7, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word unexpurgatory
The ?phonetic aid is faulty - for a start off, you can't have an accented schwa, and in fact you have two stressed syllables. I don't know what the hyphens symbolise. In fact I don't really know what your ?phonetic is supposed to be. In IPA it would be either /ʌneks'pɜ:gətɔ:ri:/ or /ʌnekspɜ:'geɪtəri:/ depending on where you're from.
Sep 7, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word admiral robert shaftoe
This one is fictitious. Bobby Shaftoe is fact.
Sep 7, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word bobby shaftoe
... or Shafto
Bobby Shafto's gone to sea,
Silver buckles on his knee;
He'll come back and marry me,
Bonny Bobby Shafto!
Bobby Shafto's bright and fair,
Combing down his yellow hair;
He's my love for ever mair,
Bonny Bobby Shafto!
Sep 7, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word fell off the back of a lorry
UK vernacular = of dubious provenance
Sep 6, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word ruth
Pity or remorse
Sep 6, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word ruthless
without ruth
Sep 6, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word mayhem
cf maim
Sep 6, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word petard
the phrase is "hoist or hoised by his own petard". Not on, not with, but by.
Petard is an explosive mine; to hoise = to blow up.
Sep 6, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word veronica
Early web search engine:
Very
Easy
Rodent-
Operated
Net-wide
Index of
Computer
Archives
I love the "rodent-operated"!
Sep 4, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word archie
Disambiguate
Search engine
Sep 4, 2008