# Redefinitions (a game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366 "2006-10-05T08:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/41 "2006-10-06T06:39:11Z")
Euphemism–children with poor aim. Proscenium– ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/42 "2006-10-06T08:38:56Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] Euphemism–children with poor aim. Proscenium– [/QUOTE] –_The Element of Style_. **Wharf**. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/43 "2006-10-06T08:42:31Z")
Wharf: (Slang) to vomit loudly. ---
**Author:** ![aclubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aclubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aclubs)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/44 "2006-10-06T08:51:13Z")
**Mangetout** , we need a new word! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/45 "2006-10-06T08:52:44Z")
Oops: Category ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/46 "2006-10-06T12:17:46Z")
Category: A figurative comparison involving felines. **Salivate** ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/47 "2006-10-06T14:38:11Z")
**Salivate** — to drool over bargains at the mall **bamboo** ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/48 "2006-10-06T15:59:31Z")
A guy who has sex with a woman and criticises her performance afterwards. Malleable. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/49 "2006-10-06T16:06:42Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] A guy who has sex with a woman and criticises her performance afterwards. Malleable. [/QUOTE] Adjective, describing property or land that is suitable for the construction of a retail mall. (Possibly after descruction of residences currently on the site.) **Register** ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/50 "2006-10-06T16:28:23Z")
[QUOTE=chrisk] Adjective, describing property or land that is suitable for the construction of a retail mall. (Possibly after descruction of residences currently on the site.) **Register** [/QUOTE] Register–Someone who habitually misunderstands things the first time around, but who eventually catches on after repeated attempts at comprehension. Costume ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/51 "2006-10-06T16:30:19Z")
Costume: When we both pay for something, we share the cost between u and me. Inflammable ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/52 "2006-10-06T16:34:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Gastronomy: the art of identifying and stydying food from a distance. [/QUOTE] That one made me laugh 🙂 Inflammable. A beat signature not playable on a drum. Sodalite ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/53 "2006-10-06T16:45:33Z")
Sodalite: Any of a variety of carbonated beverages sweetened with Aspartame or Sucralose. **Ostensible** ---
**Author:** ![Yeeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/96bed5/32.png) [@Yeeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeeter)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/54 "2006-10-06T16:46:05Z")
Sodalite when the lawn is on fire, origin was sod alight. banal ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/55 "2006-10-06T16:54:12Z")
Sodalite: Noun. 1.: A primitive illumination device made by using a bottle of Clearly Canadian or other carbonated beverage as a candle holder. 2: A follower of the religious leader, Sodal. Sodal founded a small subsect of Pastafarianism, which claims that the deity is, in fact, the Gliding Lo Mein Being, rather than the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Ordering the Chow Fan, rather than the Fettuccini Alfredo, is considered a sacrament. There has been much strife between the two factions, with known instances of members of one sect throwing meatballs or wontons at members of the other. Some Pastafarians and Sodalists have worked together to bridge the rift between the two sects, however, claiming that all starch is sacred. All right, enough of that. Maybe we should start a new thread, where people write brief, completely made-up Wikipedia articles. But I digress… Scissors. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/56 "2006-10-06T16:54:16Z")
**Ostensible:** A pencil drawing of the likeness of an ostrich. Amusing ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/57 "2006-10-06T16:55:58Z")
Brain cancer caused by spending too much time on the [Chamber of Secrets forums.](http://www.cosforums.com/) **glutinous** ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/58 "2006-10-06T16:56:17Z")
Amusing: Adj. Anything that drives away artistic or creative inspiration. Velcro ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/59 "2006-10-06T16:58:06Z")
Rats. Never mind! ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366/60 "2006-10-06T17:00:02Z")
I like glutinous, **Shoshana**. Glutinous–Adj. Improving the muscles in the human behind. Banal–Adj.–Having kind of, sort of to do with the colon, but not so much. And I think that puts us back at “velcro.” Unless someone else has answered, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redefinitions-a-game/375366.md?page=4)