Peskwrinkled - traveled-in clothes resistant to pressing
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Sun 21 Dec, 2003 05:01 pm
kewleskidnap - a hilarious Swedish practical joke where someone pretends to kidnap your youngest child
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Sun 21 Dec, 2003 05:19 pm
Wekkle spindas - kaleidoscopic charts with polka dots scattered on them
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Sun 21 Dec, 2003 05:20 pm
LOF - formal laugh in England
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Sun 21 Dec, 2003 05:28 pm
Don't make me lof!
Forl - a floral decoration for a wedding cake, popular in Fiji
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Sun 21 Dec, 2003 05:44 pm
fiorl - necklace of fresh flowers, such as a lei.
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 02:58 am
firola - an Italian pastry, consisting of a light puff-pastry outer cone filled with cream, almonds and dried fruit
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:14 am
lorafin= (Former USSR) The way to ask for Chlorophyll if planning something dodgy in the Former USSR.
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:18 am
frognail - large pin used to anchor small animals for dissection in teaching hospitals. Also toadspike.
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:20 am
galefroin--- (Glaswegian) Windswept.
(Gale + 'froin'- thrown)
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:26 am
fortgaline - a large, sturdy New World type of poultry favoured for Christmas dinner in the Falklands
(fort = strong, galina = hen <Portuguese)
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:31 am
I like it!
toroneilgalf- pronunciation: torô-nél-gölf
Parts of Iberia and Latin America where bullfighting- and the slaughter of bulls- is especially appreciated.
(fr. toro (Sp= bull) neil (adp. 'nail' (crucifixion) galf (Cockney=gulf)
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:37 am
Fontioallegro - a fast-flowing spring in Umbria, known for its curative properties
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NEX - unit of networking used to assess social climbers: 'He worked the room in 12 nexes.' 'She's a 20-nex woman.'
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:44 am
Snex--- amourous activity making the most of foodstuffs.
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:46 am
S African foodstuffs, it sounds like!
senex - new name for electee to House of Lords to dissociate them from old lords (<old man, Latin)
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:51 am
Yeah! Strangely enough I said it in a Johannesburg accent when I thought it up... but it's the combination of sex and snacks that was the muse.
Serxen-- 'Ser-shen' The process of Courting in Northern Ireland.
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 03:58 am
Exprens - a former journalist, now wheeled out to talk on radio 4 about his specialism whenever it comes up (usually a small or distant place such as Hainan Island or Kiribati)
(ex + prens < prensa: Spanish for press)
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 04:07 am
Rexpenas= pl. when a member of a Royal Family is forced to apologise or admit fault.
(fr. Rex- Latin King; pena- Spanish sorrow, shame.)
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 04:14 am
spermanex - artificial semen implanted in old men. Also Ejack-in-the-Box (tradename)
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Mon 22 Dec, 2003 04:21 am
Ejack-in-the-box! That is classic, Clary!
permanixes- pl. a popular hairstyle in the United States of Mexico. It models on the perm worn for a short while by the Ex-president Nixon.
I like it! 
Ejack-in-the-box! That is classic, Clary!