14 definitions by rentastrawberry
n: The process of becoming fat in a excessive manner.
Hippopatomaphy
1. v: To become fat.
2. To gain a lot of weight.
Hippopatomaphatic
1. n: A person that is unbelievably fat.
2. n: A person unable to lose weight on a diet.
Hippopatomaphy
1. v: To become fat.
2. To gain a lot of weight.
Hippopatomaphatic
1. n: A person that is unbelievably fat.
2. n: A person unable to lose weight on a diet.
by rentastrawberry October 28, 2004
Memento mori...and I will kill you!
by rentastrawberry October 28, 2004
A small island, especially in the Thames.
You say it like the number eight. Anyone living along the River Thames upstream of London as far as about Windsor or Reading will know this word, as it’s commonly used in the names of the little islands that dot the river in those reaches. But for most British people it surfaces only as a curious term during commentaries on the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, when places like Chiswick Eyot are regularly mentioned. It’s from Old English iggath (or igeth), which is based on ieg, an island, plus a diminutive suffix. So—a small island. As you might expect from its Old English credentials, it turns up in a couple of places in J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: “That night they camped on a small eyot close to the western bank”. An older form that’s more obviously connected to the way you say it is ait, a spelling retained in the names of some of the Thames islands and which Charles Dickens used in Bleak House: “Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city”.
You say it like the number eight. Anyone living along the River Thames upstream of London as far as about Windsor or Reading will know this word, as it’s commonly used in the names of the little islands that dot the river in those reaches. But for most British people it surfaces only as a curious term during commentaries on the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, when places like Chiswick Eyot are regularly mentioned. It’s from Old English iggath (or igeth), which is based on ieg, an island, plus a diminutive suffix. So—a small island. As you might expect from its Old English credentials, it turns up in a couple of places in J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: “That night they camped on a small eyot close to the western bank”. An older form that’s more obviously connected to the way you say it is ait, a spelling retained in the names of some of the Thames islands and which Charles Dickens used in Bleak House: “Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city”.
by rentastrawberry October 27, 2004
by rentastrawberry October 26, 2004
This is the famous move that the wrestling hero The Killier Kawalsky did to his opponents in the ring. It's also used to tickle someone on the stomach.
by rentastrawberry October 27, 2004
Fear of the number 13.
The year 1998 was a bad for triskaidekaphobics. Strictly, the word does refer only to fear of the number 13, but it’s often extended to mean fear of the inauspicious date Friday 13th. That year was one of the comparatively rare ones in which that date turned up three times. Every year has at least one Friday 13th, but in each of the 28-year cycles of our calendar there are four years that have three of them. The only consolation I can offer to those affected is that there won’t be another for 11 years. But then we shall have three in short order: 2009, 2012 and 2015. The word’s origins are all Greek, from tris, “three”, kai, “and”, deka, “ten” (so making thirteen), plus phobia, “fear, flight”. The word is a modern formation, dating only from 1911 (it first appeared in I H Coriat’s Abnormal Psychology). Though it has a serious use in psychology, it seems to exist mostly to provide an opportunity for people like me to show off weird words from classical languages.
The year 1998 was a bad for triskaidekaphobics. Strictly, the word does refer only to fear of the number 13, but it’s often extended to mean fear of the inauspicious date Friday 13th. That year was one of the comparatively rare ones in which that date turned up three times. Every year has at least one Friday 13th, but in each of the 28-year cycles of our calendar there are four years that have three of them. The only consolation I can offer to those affected is that there won’t be another for 11 years. But then we shall have three in short order: 2009, 2012 and 2015. The word’s origins are all Greek, from tris, “three”, kai, “and”, deka, “ten” (so making thirteen), plus phobia, “fear, flight”. The word is a modern formation, dating only from 1911 (it first appeared in I H Coriat’s Abnormal Psychology). Though it has a serious use in psychology, it seems to exist mostly to provide an opportunity for people like me to show off weird words from classical languages.
I'm triskaidekaphobic(no I'm not).
by rentastrawberry October 27, 2004
This was a British raid by 2 Special Air Service launched on 27 October 1943.
Inserted by boat on Italy’s east coast between Ancona and Pescara, the troopers were to destroy railroad bridges and disrupt rear areas. The team lost two soldiers, who were captured during the six-day mission.
Inserted by boat on Italy’s east coast between Ancona and Pescara, the troopers were to destroy railroad bridges and disrupt rear areas. The team lost two soldiers, who were captured during the six-day mission.
by rentastrawberry November 30, 2004