Tolstoy 

(verb)

to make significantly longer than is necessary to convey the relevant message; derived from Leo Tolstoy whose classic literature is quite long and wordy

Hey man, I just asked for a light, not your life story. You didn't have to Tolstoy me.

Tolstoy by nyaaron August 26, 2009

Tolstoy 

A Dickhead cry baby

That Tolstoy is always bitching

Tolstoy by YoMamaSo April 3, 2023

Tolstoy's Snowball 

An entity that will survive longer if attacked than if left alone. Reference to Tolstoy's comment in War and Peace that a snowball will stick together as it melts on a stove when it would fall apart if left alone. Lesser known cousin of Chekov's Gun.

Bro #1: Bro, do you want to prank our rival team before the big game?
Bro #2: Nah bro, did you hear them arguing after that last practice? They're Tolstoy's Snowball - they'll play way worse if they don't have us to focus on.

Bro #1: That's wise bro.

Tolstoy's Snowball by Crazy cow May 9, 2025

Leo Tolstoy 

Commonly cited as one of the greatest authors ever, Tolstoy was a 19th century Russian most famous for his works "War and Peace."(1869) and "Anna Karenina." (1878) among many other great works of literature. He also wrote many profound essays, a lot of which revolved around Christianity.

Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is most probably the best work of fiction to have ever been written. Through central characters Count Pierre Bezuhov and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the greatest spiritual and ethical questions of life are explored through embarkations on monumental journeys.

Leo Tolstoy by Gohn Gardenza October 7, 2008

Leo Tolstoy 

Leo Tolstoy or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction. Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do." - Leo Tolstoy

"Boredom: the desire for desires." - Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy by ♫ Highway to Hell ♫ December 6, 2009

De-Tolstoy 

to make a computer code significantly shorter after refactoring it.

Dude I tried to fix your Java code but it was a failed attempt. I had to De-Tolstoy it first. Only 20% of the original code was left when I finished.

De-Tolstoy by embe March 29, 2012

Tolstoys Beard 

The Beard of Leo(Lev Nikolayevich) Tolstoy….it’s Hair. Stop being stupid

Tolstoys beard is in my potato salad… gross

Tolstoys Beard by YoMamaSo April 3, 2023