Conference turris::womannotes-v2

    Flonks:	little, unidentifiable, inorganic pieces of stuff that 
    		cling to clothes
    
    Grindels:	little, unidentifiable, organic pieces of stuff that
    		cling to clothes
    
    Steve
    

    No wonder you get stared at, Bonnie!  There is no "e" in "mung".
    ("Mung" has the definition:  mung - Mung Until No Good.  Which
    means it is an infinitely recursive definition.  Which in itself
    is a good phrase to trip off your tongue.)
    
    With digital clocks overtaking analog clocks (metaphorically
    speaking, that is, since they all run equally fast), I have gone
    to using "deasil" and "widdershins" for clockwise and counterclockwise.
    
    "Cruft" is anything that is cluttering a particular space up; it
    can be stuff which is good, and useful, just let it do that *somewhere
    else*.
    
    "Clib" is the gooey stuff in the bottom of refrigerators.
    
    							Ann B.

    Ann,
    
    Well I pronounce it mun -ge which is probably why :-)
    
    Bonnie

    Glad I'm not the only one who invents words..
    
    When you FLOPAKIZE something, you do with it whatever it needs to
    have done to it;  as in (passing someone an open jar and its
    lid) "Here--go flopakize this."
                   
    EGGY-DEL-FUEGOS (pronounced like 'eggy-del-f'way-goes') are any
    egg dish you put together that doesn't follow a particular recipe.
    
    FLAPDOODLE--an epithet used when you drop food, especially a piece
    of buttered bread that lands, you guessed;  butter-side down.
    
    FANTODS--This is a nervous condition that always comes in multiples,
    i.e., "I really had the fantods last night!"
    
    SQUIDGEROLE--This is an endearment to a slightly pudgy husband or
    cat (or both, see SQUIDGEROLES.).
                                     
    GLUNG--This is the stuff you're always bringing up from the back
    of your throat when you have a cold.
    
    CHEEZOID--Describes a geeky sort of person (this one's not my own!).
    
    Keep these coming!
    
    Jane

    Paul Dickson has just released a book of such words that he collected
    from people all over the country.  Richard Lederer, a syndicated
    columnist who appears in the Nashua Telegraph, has written several
    columns on them and forwarded those supplied by his readers to
    Dickson.
    
    However, these "family words" aren't really the sort that Bonnie
    mentions in .0, which are rather widely known and used.
    
    If you have amusing words that have been in your family for a while,
    send them to Lederer, care of the Telegraph, including as much as
    you can about the word's meaning and origin.
    
    					Steve

    re: .4 "Flapdoodle"
    
    Around our zoo, a "flapdoodle" was a big commotion, with an
    implication that said goings on were, at best, entirely unwarranted.
    F'rinstance, I bet Ma would've said something like "Some of what
    I've seen in those NOTES conferences you have. . .well, I've never
    seen such a flapdoodle!"
    
    Steve
    

Nugatory is a fav in our group. It means useless. We use it to mean a technical
issue that doesn't really matter [anymore].
	Mez

    
    
    When ever I make a decision for my husband and I with out
    talking it over first he refers to it as a SHEWE.

    real words include:
    
    omphaloskepsis -  the act of contemplating one's navel.  Computers
    that have "gone south" are probably doing this in an electronic
    sort of way.
    
    defenestrate - to throw something or someone out of a window
    (particularly from the highest floor of a building, from the french
    for window, "fene(s?)tre")
    
    unreal words include
    
    Floydian - like freudian, only much, much weirder
    
    frob - a thing.
    
    tweak - a little change that makes something work.
    
    twiddle - fiddling with something on a larger scale to make it work.
    
    TBD - one of my favorites words.  Appears so often in my documents
    that it has its only place in my personal DECspell dictionary.

    kludge - (clooj) - (has someone mentioned this?) - to jury-rig
    something so that it works, usually in an extremely cheesy and
    half-baked way.
    
        

    One that I came across a while back, and liked, and now use
    occasionally when the situation merits (with the appropriate odd
    looks that Bonnie has mentioned :^) is:
    
    administrivia - administrative trivia.
    
    My family has a habit of passing on "conversational gems" - they
    progress from father to son, and are used as needed; 
    
    blatherskite - a person who talks too much (real word!)
    
    Some are rather obscene, yet descriptive, phrases:
    
    "A monkey f**king a football" : a phrase used to describe an incredibly
        clumsy person trying to do a simple thing...
    
    Dad was rather descriptive in his judgements toward me when I was
    growing up, as you can see...  :^)
    
    
    BTW, did you know that "mung(e)" and "kludge" were originally invented
    by the hackers at MIT, back in the early days of computing?  The
    Model Railroad Club at MIT, which later evolved into the hackers,
    invented these words to describe what they were doing or what was
    happening under the ever-more intricate railroad models that they
    were building.
    
    These, and other words/phrases, are described in the book "Hackers",
    author forgotten...  Excellent read, for any computer-oriented person.
    
    Bill

    Back in Connecticut in the late 50's (No, I'm not REALLY that old
    - I heard it from a friend.  Yeah, That's the ticket!) Mung had
    a very specific meaning:
    
    [For the stout of heart Only!]
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Mung: The vaginal discharge resulting from beating a pregnant gorilla
    about the stomach x-number of times.
                             
    If we were "ranking" someone, we might say "Yer mother eats mung!"
    or some similar witicism.
         
    This was not the EXACT definition.  Did anyone else use it in that
    context?  Please mention where/when.
    
    Jack

    
    From me sainted mither:
    
    "Ostepevious" (how do you spell a word that doesn't exist??)
    (Aw-stah-pee'-vee-us)
    
    The situation that happens when the mystery story is coming to
    a climax. (You can tell this in the movies by the music)
    
    The "s/hero" is walking through the darkened house, as the no-good-nik
    waits behind a door to clobber her. Or JAWS is following the boat.
    
    The situation is then said to be ostepevious.
    
    --DE
    

        For those of you who like playing games and weird words try
    Balderdash.  It's a game that has a whole bunch of real unusual
    words and their definitions.
    
        One player selects a word for the other players to create a
    definition for the word after the player spells and pronounces it.
    Each of the other players composes a definition and returns it to
    the player who read the word.  The reader then reads out all of
    the definitions including the correct one and the other players
    try to guess the correct definition.  Players score points whenever
    someone (including themself) chooses their definition, or if they
    select the proper definition.  The reader scores points if no one
    chooses the correct definition.
    
        An excellent reference for strange words is "Mrs Byrnes Dictionary
    of Unusual, Unique and Obscure Words".  I remember posting the
    publisher in the BOOKS conference quite a while ago.
    
    ASP

    Granted, some of these aren't original:
    
    FELGERCARB - crap (from Cattlecar..oops Battlestar Galactica)
    
    MACGUYVERISM - making something out of scraps and have them work
    (also known as Mickey Mousing) (guess where from)
    
    KIDLET, YOUNGLING - child
    
    Another weird word source (and I'm surprised that no one brought
    it up) are the Sniglet books by Rich Hall.
    
    K.C.

    I heard something similar of mung
    
    formfeed for the timid of heart follows:
    
    Mung was said to be the primary constituent in our campus food.
    It was what dribbled out of the nose and mouth of an albino gorilla
    when hung upside down and beaten around the head and shoulders with
    a broad stick.
    
    

    Another form of Balderdash requires no game materials other than
    a decent dictionary and paper and pencils.  One person picks an
    obscure word from the dictionary, and tells people what the word
    is, and how it is spelled.  They each make up a definition, and
    write it down on their paper, while the word-picker writes down
    the true one.  The word-picker mixes the responses and reads them
    aloud.  Everyone votes on the one they think is right, and the one
    who gets it right is the word-picker next time.
    
    It was called "fictionary".
    
    -Jody
    

    Re: .12
    
    Jack, back in the early 50's (I'm told :-) ), there was a similar
    definition of "mung" that circulated in the primarily-Jewish section
    of Dorchester, MA.
    
    To say to one's friend that "you eat mung" was the zenith of insults.
    
    Kinda strange to think that saying "you eat shit" was mild, in
    comparison. (No, no gentle readers: the phrase was considered
    mild; shit, per se, wasn't.) :-)
    
      Alan

    
    RE: .16
    
    An acquaintance of mine from Connecticut by way of Ohio called
    this substance "poozle."  The only difference was that he didn't
    specify that the gorilla be albino.  I suspect he picked up the 
    word in the Navy, given what he thought of the food...
    
    Ron

    
    pudies (poodies):  My neice's word for, ummm, passing gas.  
                       Usually followed by volumes of giggles.
    
    Bar-zoom        :  The term for how high Barbie dolls bounce
                       off of those mini-tramps used for jogging.
                       (I knew there was some use for a Barbie doll!)
    
    Sharon
    

    "Bogon", a new unit coined to measure degrees of bogosity or
             just how 'bogus' something really is.  This came across
             the usenet TCP-IP mailing list a month ago or so.
    
    "That was a 20-bogon description, let me straigthen you out".
    
    DougO

    Pusser - a cat
    
    Nuke - to microwave

    RE: Fictionary
    
    My mother's version is the same as Jody's except that the dictionary
    passes around the circle; this allows everybody to get a chance
    as "reader", since "readers" often get the most points per round.
    
    Bill

    re "fictionary":
    
    The way we scored it in college was a bit different. The "reader"
    could not score at all. Everyone who guessed the correct definition
    got one point. You also got a point for every person who guessed
    your definition as the correct one. Needless to say, the dictionary
    rotated among the players.
    
                                                   
                  /
                 (  ___
                  ) ///
                 /
    
    P.S. You were also honor bound to declare if you already knew the
    selected word.
    

    Moronosphere:  place where idiocy originates/resides
                   
    

    
    
    ijit - cross between an idiot and a jert
    
    polaroid - cross between a polack and a hemeroid, and their both
    	       a pain in the _ss (Hey, I'm a pole, so I guess it's ok
    	       for me to pose a pole joke.  No offense intended if any
    	       taken.)
    jim
    

    	The _Nashua Telegraph_ had a bunch of these last week. I
    	was going to bring it in, but was too busy. Now, if it's
    	still there when I get home tonight, I'll bring it in.
    
    	Scott (They spelled _munge_ with an "e.")

    My mother always said (and I find myself saying):
    
    Potwallup:  Putter around the house and accomplish lots of little
    		stuff
    
    Calooping:  Going out with friends to have fun and do silly things
    
    P.
    

    Subdude - a surfer who's fallen off his board and hasn't surfaced.
    
    ASP

    
    - budua, (pronounced bud-dwa)  another term for "buddy"
    
    - punkaloid,  slang, for punker
    
    - Bufordites,  people who live in Buford
    
    - Gumer, (pronounced goomer)  same thing as a goon, or a goober
    
    
    t.

    Grandsiblings, grandsibs - singular term for nieces and nephews.
    (ie.  Yesterday I had my 10th grandsib, a niece, Monica Danielle
    Davenport.)
    
    K.C.

    > Bufordites,  people who live in Buford
    
    Stoics -- people who live in Stow

    Mainiacs - people from Maine
    
    (Middlesex - not male nor female?)
    
    Toyota - stuffed characature from "The Empire Strikes Back"
    
    Relevant - large land mammal with big ears and a long trunk.
    
    (I'm sorry; 'tis the season to be foppy!)
    
    K.C.

bartroid - bartender

waitroid - waiter/waitress

Jenna

    Re: .39
    
    One place I've been calls them "waitrons."  (Maybe it's meant to
    sychronize with patrons, but I keep thinking of that Disney movie.)

       The Grand Poo-Bah - my mother's name for anyone/animal that seems
       to be getting above themselves ie. When my cat sits on Mom's new
       chair - "who does he think he is, the The Grand Poo-Bah?" and she
       chases him away. liesl

    Let's see... my supervisor is my boss. That means that his boss
    (supervisor) is my grandboss, and *her* boss is my great-grandboss,
    and...
    
    --- jerry

     Here are the words I promised from the Richard Ledered and the Nashua

     Telegraph [Tuesday, December 6, 1988]:



      o  Glippy - Almost, but not quite, nauseous.



      o  Gookimo - Short for "Look, the baby is doing something cute.

         Don't do anything to distract him/her."



      o  Gription - Child's blend of "grip" and "traction." (I used to work

         will a fella who always used this word.  We installed appliances

         together, and would often find that we didn't have enought

         gription to hold on to a specific appliance.



      o  Hoddibitchew - That which is left in the tub after you've bathed

         and drained the tub.



      o  Holy ol' Red Rattlin' - One of many ersatz swearwords and

         expressions reported.



      o  Hoybee - The swirled pattern of hair that can be seen on the head

         of a short-haired boy.



      o  Hozey - A dibs word, as in "I hozey the wayback"



      o  Munge and Farlevooge - These two words are the direct result of

         adding a baby (with a soft head) to a family with a delighted

         older brother and sister.  The first word means to run something

         (baby's head) affectionately, but vigorously.  The second word

         describes the act of walking around a seated baby in a circle with

         one's hand on the baby's head.



      o  Make-tend - A delightful blend of "make-believe" and "pretend."



      o  Murgatroid - A proper name (at last) for those shiny garden sphere

         that sit on pedestals in gardens.



      o  Nancy - (adj.) Horribly perfect and goody-goody; usually applied

         to people inspired by Nancy Drew.



      o  Nerbils - Pieces of junk that accumulate in the sheets at the

         bottom of the bed.



      o  Noonie - Naked state that occurs when kids take off their clothes

         to put on PJs.



      o  Odoralls - Toddler's overall, for obvious reasons.



      o  The Part - A foreign body in one's drink.



      o  Underfootage - Standard condition prevailing when cats are in the

         kitchen.



      o  Scubble - Any large piece of equipment that is used to build

         roads.


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      o  Teetulinear - (1) Very small (used mostly for inanimate objects);

         (2) In a frenzy.



      o  Thwathy - Describes the taste and feel of a piece of fruit that is

         supposed to be juicy but turns out to be flannel-like.





     Remember, folks, you heard/read it here first.





     Scott

    Well, Richard (and Scott), the *real* name for a Murgatroid
    is a "gazing ball".  I got that out of a juvenile by Jane Langton.
    
    One I just remembered:
    "slurker" - someone who has been lazy and not come forward to
    volunteer to work.
    
    						Ann B.

    When my daughter brought home a "baby" plant from her parenting
    class at school, I announced to the family that I was now a Grandplant
    and "he" was my Plantson.  "He" was the most peaceful "child" I've
    ever seen, and I'd "plant sit" for "him" anytime.  ("He" was a boy
    by the draw of a slip of paper.)
    
    :) Barb

    Crestacion.  The hard glob of toothpaste at the end of the pump.
    
    Aimacion.    When you use the other brand.
    
    (Strange mood.  Forgive me please.)  8^)
    
    Susan

    This one needs a bit of preface.  I'm not sure it's "wierd" nor
    am I a good person to try and judge what is/isn't wierd (too
    close to the trees, and all that).  Also, you have to have a
    bit of a feeling for the source.
    
    Our multi-key player's name is Carol and she's from the west
    coast; to say the least she can do the valley-girl/valley-boy
    schticks to perfection.  Furthermore, we've long since established
    a strong sense of equality and team-ness in the band, so phrases
    we might not use "on the street" are o.k. in the studio.  Finally,
    anyone who spoke Carol (or Meg, our lead vocalist) would know, in
    no uncertain terms, that they are *real* powerful people; a male
    wanting to lay some MCP debris on them had best find a healthier
    venue (lest he find himself wearing a couple of his primary sexual
    characterstics as earrings. . .).
    
    So, to make a short story long, despite the fact that "ette" usually
    signifies the diminutive in language, it seemed perfectly "right"
    when (to stop us from dithering around between tunes), Carol hollers
    out, "Hey, like, let's go all you dudes and dudettes!"   
    
    Way cool!
    
    Steve
    

    re:.47
    
    The band The Fools introduced their song "Life Sucks, and Then You
    Die" with the phrase, "Here's a country song for...all you hombres
    and hombrettes..."
    
    --- jerry

re: .48

About 20 years ago, when translating a Swedish film, I invented the
phrase "hill-billy and hill-millie" -- the latter as a translation
for the Swedish word "Dalkulla" (gal from the province of Dalarna).

Martin.

    re:.49
    
    Speaking of which, I've been meaning to ask you, was it "Yellow"
    or "Blue" (or both) that you translated? I am curious. :-)
    
    --- jerry

    Grunging: what we did at slumber parties as teens. Hair in BIG
              rollers, baby doll nighties, 4 seasons full blast
              and experimenting with makeup. It was commonly called
              a Grunge night.
                                    -sunny-

re: 50 (rathole)

Both books, and the subtitles for -Blue.  The note, however, was referring
to another film, "They Call Us Mods" (I wanted to title it "Dirty Hippies")
that was a sort of real-world Alice's Restaurant.  (In all cases, I worked
with Jenny Bowman, who is still translating films.)

They Call Us Mods (Swedish "Dom kallar oss Mods") cronicled the misadventures
of two late -sixties street people, wandering around Stockholm, smoking
dope, and making the bourgeous nervous about the purity of their daughters.
The lead roles were played by two real street people, and it was never clear
whether the film was real or fiction.

About ten years later, the director made a second film, "A Proper Life"
(Swedish "Ett Anst�ndigt Liv"), that continued the cronicle.  One of the
hippies was just barely keeping his nose above the water, the other was still
shooting dope.  One of the scenes showed him with an overdose, being
rushed to the emergency ward, then joking with the doctor the next day.
In reality, he died of an overdose during the shooting.

Both guys had kids, and the director plans a third film, possibly showing
the second generation.

Martin.

    new film
    
    release date unknown
    
    
    
    They Call Us Co-Mods
    
    (sorry, it had to be said)
    

    farbeedoo; unwanted matter attached to another material, as in a
               piece of lint on an article of clothing.  or a piece of
               lint stuck in the belly button or...
    
    	i can't recall the wierd words which apply to an auto with one
    working headlight as oppossed to one, with both headlights operational.
    but there are words for these.

    re...-1
    
    that's a 'popeye'---car with one headlite.
    

    in re .55 in re .54
    
    NO, no, a car with one headlight is a 'pididdle'
    
    Bonnie

    
>>    NO, no, a car with one headlight is a 'pididdle'


	 no, its "perdiddle"..oh, that's right, people out east don't
	 pronounce their "r"s so we could be saying the same thing!!!

	 8^)

	 many smiles!!

	 kath

    No, it's conservation of Rs.  There are only a finite supply of
    them.
    
    So, for every word like "perdiddle", there has to an equal number
    of words like "pahk".  For every "tobaccer" there's got to be
    a "smokah".
    
    Notice carefully!  We don't drop our Rs because we want to.  No.
    We do it because we *have* to!  People in the south and midwest
    and west stole them from us.

    (I don't even want to get into words like nucular.)
    
    								-mr. bill

Strange how an R looks like a bent paperclip.

Perhaps it's trying to tell us something.

Martin.

    it's called a spedunckle if it's the rear light out!  And it's
    worth two kisses!

    justme....jacqui

    How about the word
    
    Picky-ooney
    
    It's a trait someone has when they can't help picking apart everything
    all the time......
    
    Anna
    

   re spedunkle, pididdle; we always used them as an excuse to punch each
    other on the arm.
    
   >   worth two kisses!
                     
    Sounds like your games are more fun.
    
    DougO

    Bonnie, here, in the Boston 'burbs, we also called one-headlight-out
    (or on - I guess it depends upon one's perspective) a "padiddle".
    You will kindly note the absence of any "r's" in that word. :-)
    
    And, jacqui, you were definitely part of a generous crowd. All we
    got for a padiddle was *one* kiss.
    
      Alan 

    Alan,
    
    the word my friends used in New Jersey could have been spelled
    padiddle, I don't think I ever saw it written down :-)  ;-).
    
    and Doug,
    
    where on earth did you grow up that you didn't know that one head
    light out was a excuse to get/give a kiss! Weird!
    
    I seem to recall that two lights out, one front and one rear was
    worth two kisses.
    
    Bonnie

    FRONT LIGHT = one kiss	paddiddle/piddle etc....

    REAR LIGHT = two kisses	spadunckle/spedunckle etc.....

    The rules are a little more involved also about whether the male
    or female spotted it first!

    *********************************************************************

    Did anyone ever go "watch the submarines race"?????

    *********************************************************************

    justme....jacqui

    
    Even in high school, I couldn't quite believe it when my date suggested
    that particular activity.  (And I accepted with glee :-) )
    
    Alison
    

    WUSEBAG - A cowardly person 
    
    DORKSQUAT - Similar to a couch potato
    
    JARHEAD - Marines (particularly after first haircut)
                                
    HOOSEY - When you can't remember someone else's name in a conversation.
    
    Out here we call a single headlight a PERDIDDLE and a single tail
    light a PERDINKLE.  (We LOOOVVVEE using RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR's out West,
    rrrreally.      
    
    Louise

    <--(.67)
    
    The alleged origin of "jarhead" for a Marine is kinda interesting, I
    think:  spozedly it comes from the Corps having continued to use mules
    to shift supplies long after the Army switched over to motor vehicles.
    The practice was "explained" by the Army as being due to the Marines
    not wanting to put their own relatives out of work. 
    
    Needless to say, the joke was nevvvvver told within Marine hearing.
    
    						=maggie
                                     

    	RE: 328.68
    
    	Maggie,
    
    	I just read it. Guess what? I'm on my way to your office
    	now. Someone has to defend the USMC. 8-)>
    
    	Do all of you know what the acronym USMC stands for? I didn't
    	think so.
    
    		USMC
    
    		Uncle Sam's Misguided Children
    		United Society for the Mentally Corrupted
    		Unorganized S#%+ and Mass Confusion
    
    	There are probably other, but I've been out for 19 years,
    	sew eye furgot.
    
    	Scott