Redefinitions (a game)

Subsistence–Demanding that one’s hoagie be made precisely to one’s specifications.

Shingle

**shingle: ** The state of having, or claiming, no romantic attachment, while heavily intoxicated. Usage: “Naw…no girlfriend…Ah’m shingle…”

impunity

Impunity: Noun. The state of not being small and weak.

Quahog

Quahog: An exlamation made by an Italian-English polyglot upon ascertaining the location of a swine.

Probate

Probate–Adj. Relating to, pertaining to, or similar to, a probe. Used frequently in talking about alien abductions.

Merovingian

Democrat: someone who believes that all software should be made available in free trial versions.

Republican

Republican: One who makes the same bar crawl every night.

Repudiate

A assume that the disjionted spot between last night and this morning has to do with why I couldn’t find this thread for hours and was marked now as a thread I hadn’t opened in the past. Board freakiness.

repudiate (re-POOty-ATE) : To have engaged in cunnilingus two or more times.

snorkel

snorkel: The sound made when one of a pair of Siamese Twin elephants conjoined at the trunk sneezes (thanks to Tim Conway)

We haven’t done “banal” from post 147 or “Merovingian” from post 165, so I’ll leave those in lieu of a new word.

I think we did “banal” earlier in the thread. “Merovingian” is still up for grabs, though.

Merovingian: Of French architecture, to appear capable of yeilding easily.

Austere

Austere - A neutered Texan male longhorn.

Vernacular

vernacular: a one-lensed optical device used for seeing in the summer.

invective

Invective - The donation given in the vicarage for Christmas Service. Your Christmas tithe.

Pernicious

Adj: dragon-like

Crecendo

Crescendo (n): The feeling of loss accompanied by having squeezed out the very last drop of your Crest toothpaste on vacation in Mexico.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure: low notes in a piece of music which carry the rhythm. Distinguished from percussion, in that infrastructure contains musical pitch. Related to ‘through-bass’.

Involution.

**involution: ** Development of genetic traits (e.g. conjoined eyebrows, low IQ scores) over time through marriages of close family members in isolated communities.

persimmon

persimmon: according to Simon

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