atemperman's definitions

biblical

1. Pertaining to the Bible, the sacred text of Christianity.
2. (slang) Characterizing harsh, serious treatment.
3. (slang) Sexual. Used in the phrase, "in the Biblical sense", esp. applied to the use of the verb "know".

(def. 2): Tony said if we don't get the job done by Friday, he's going to have to get biblical on our asses.

(def. 3): Yeah, I'm really glad I got to know Lisa. Heh, in the biblical sense.

by atemperman January 24, 2004

suffixification

the superfluous addition of a suffix to a word, usually adding a suffix to make a word a certain part of speech even though that word is already that part of speech, e.g. adding '-ulate' to 'shit' to make 'shitulate,' which has the same denotation as 'shit.'

Beth's suffixification of the word "happy" to "happitudinousness" was a bit excessive.

by atemperman April 20, 2003

verbum

1. Meant to have the same denotation as word, i.e., a term used to indicate agreement or assent or approval. Somewhere between "cool" and "okay". The word is used by people with a rudimentary to thorough knowledge of Latin (in which it means "word"), generally ironically, as it results from the application of an elevated, academic language to a "street" or "ghetto" term. The "v" is usually pronounced as an English "w", as that is how consonantal "v" is pronounced in classical Latin.

X: Hey, I got straight 800s on my GREs!
Y: Verbum!

by atemperman January 25, 2004

episiotomy

A surgical procedue in which a slit is made connecting the rectum and the vagina so as to aid in childbirth. Results in a (hopefully temporary) cloaca-like opening.

Your head is so fat that your mom had to have an episiotomy to have you.

by atemperman February 6, 2004

eight inches

An imprecise unit of length. When used by a man describing the length of his penis, it means somewhere between six-and-a-half and seven-and-a-half inches.

Rico said he had eight inches, but you'd have to be generous to say six-and-three-quarters.

by atemperman January 24, 2004

oxbridge

A term combining "Oxford" and "Cambridge", the two oldest and most prestigious English universities.

The centrality of alcohol to social life is something that eve Oxbridge shares with the rest of the British universities.

by atemperman January 24, 2004

octopi

An attempted pluralization of the word "octopus". "Octopus", however, does not pluralize as most other words ending in "-us" borrowed from Latin. The proper Latin plural of "octopus" is "octopodes" (pronounced in English "awk-t@-POE-deez"). Saying "octopodes", however, is like pronouncing the first "r" in "February"--something seldom done and appreciated, however greatly, by very few. Your best bet is just to stick with the good old English pluralization, "octopuses".

While the two syllabontes of our mollusk neurobiology class differed in some ways, they both mentioned a discussion of how octopodes *octopi, while certainly not as intelligent as homines sapientes, were nonetheless the smartest of the invertebrata.

by atemperman January 25, 2004