28 definitions by mikroth
| 1. | retro-cringe | ||
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February 12, 2009 Urban Word of the Day
When you remember, the morning after, something you said, wrote, did, didn't say, etc., the day before.. 'I texted undying love to that chick at the party when I got home.. This morning, I'm having retro-cringe, bigtime..'
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| 2. | Barbra | ||
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an implied reference to the famed Streisand song 'The Way We Were' 'We broke up last week, but we're back now and it's all Barbra..'
'I faced going back home to meet the grizzlies after all these years, but we've made up and it's all Barbra...' 'jeez, honey, can't we drop this little mistake of mine, and be back to Barbra ?' |
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| 3. | whingefest | ||
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Now most common in chatgroups -- previously observed at the village well, later the parish pump : a group enjoying a good old communal moan about anything and everything. 'I've given up that chatline -- it's now just a whingefest about everything that's wrong with urban life...'
'I left the dinner-party when it developed into a whingefest about the government...' 'That bitch is a one-woman whingefest -- it makes me tired just listening to her endless moans... |
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| 4. | hyposhit | ||
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The public outrage manufactured by those who want to cover their own dirty tracks by accusing others. " 'Stop hounding politicians for cheating public funds -- they're only human; respect their privacy' -- What hyposhit !"
"Journalists, of all people, accusing politicians of fiddling their expenses ! How's that for hyposhit ?!" |
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| 5. | Cokesi | ||
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When you want a drink, but hate to sound like a walking ad... 'Wanna Coke ?'
' mmm...Pepsi ?' 'OK, Cokesi -- let's go !' |
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| 6. | eye-skating | ||
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When you're reading a boring book out of duty, and your eye just slides over the words without engaging your brain.. 'I tried to revise for the exam last night... but it was just eye-skating -- nothing stuck in the mind..'
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| 7. | three-flush floater | ||
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a metaphor culled from domestic plumbing, for crap it's hard to dismiss.. Clive James is such a wit. He called somebody's crap novel a 'three-flush floater'... !
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