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Porteous 

Commonly used in Scottish Slang to criticizes one or more persons based on their manliness or lack there of. Since it is not used in any other culture, the usage has become almost non-existent. :(
Look at that Porteous, she really needs to man up
Porteous by Ed_Hale April 7, 2010

Porteous 

1.) Portable Catholic Prayer Book

2.) Over-achieving curly haired biologist.
1.) "thats a lovely porteous!"
"why thankyou. I got it from Waterstones."
"why I shall simply have to go and buy my own."
"you can't, they've sold out."
*despair*

2.) "helloooo. look at my telomerase."
Porteous by ibeaspoon July 27, 2010
When a lady/gentleman is fat but also attractive
Travis: "Wasn't Kirsty Alley hot in Cheers?"

Bob: "Not as hot as Ted Danson but yes she was"

Travis: "Very true Bob. She was gorgeous back then but with the added weight she's probably more porgeous now"
Porgeous by The HeartBreak Kid September 20, 2012
When someone is both pretty and gorgeous.

One who’s feelin fierce and lookin fine.
Damn. She be looking porgeous in her skinny jeans.

Thorgeous Porgeous Worgeous Shorgeous 

A beautiful girl called Zahra.
You are so thorgeous porgeous worgeous shorgeous.
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
stove by anthony willison March 18, 2004
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