AKACroatalin's definitions
Well, as you could probably guess it means that you are surprised. But it’s surprised in BIG CAPITAL LETTERS with explosions, earthquakes and tidal waves followed by a total eclipse of the sun. It’s the sort of surprise that you would feel when as you were feeding your cat she looked up at you and said “You’re fucking joking! I’m not eating that; it looks like puke and smells like shit! Get me some chicken or a piece of oak smoked ham, you arsehole.”
by AKACroatalin December 15, 2016
Get the Surprised the hell out of memug. Acronym standing for Amazon Can Sod Off. Used when Amazon pull one of their usual dirty tricks like freezing your PayPal account, reneging on a delivery slot. You think you can’t live without it? Guess again, search and you’ll find better, cheaper and more reliable outlets. Remember, Amazon has but one purpose, to make lots and lots of money for Jeff Bezos.
by AKACroatalin December 17, 2019
Get the ACSOmug. Lyke-Wake Dirge is a traditional English song, thought to have originated in Yorkshire, telling of the journey a soul makes and the trials it faces, on its way from earth through purgatory to Heaven. Though, ostensibly, from the Christian era and featuring references to Christianity, much of the symbolism, within the song, is thought to be of heathen origin.
The title refers to the watch over the dead between the death and funeral, known as a wake. Lyke is an obsolete word meaning a corpse, and is related to the German word “Leiche” and the Dutch word “lijk”, which have the same meaning. It survives in modern English in the expression lych gate, the roofed gate at the entrance to a churchyard, where a coffin could be held and the bearers rested before continuing on to the church for the burial service. "Lyke-wake" could also stem from the Norse influence on the Yorkshire dialect, the contemporary Norwegian and Swedish words are still "likvake" and "likvaka" respectively ("lik" and "vaka"/"vake" with the same meanings as previously described for "lyke" and "wake").
The old ballad affirms that safety and comfort of the soul in overcoming the difficulties it faces are directly related to the dead person's willingness to have given charitably during their lifetime.. The poem on which it is based was first collected, in 1686, by John Aubrey. Aubrey also recorded that it was definitely being sung in 1616, but was believed to be much older.
The title refers to the watch over the dead between the death and funeral, known as a wake. Lyke is an obsolete word meaning a corpse, and is related to the German word “Leiche” and the Dutch word “lijk”, which have the same meaning. It survives in modern English in the expression lych gate, the roofed gate at the entrance to a churchyard, where a coffin could be held and the bearers rested before continuing on to the church for the burial service. "Lyke-wake" could also stem from the Norse influence on the Yorkshire dialect, the contemporary Norwegian and Swedish words are still "likvake" and "likvaka" respectively ("lik" and "vaka"/"vake" with the same meanings as previously described for "lyke" and "wake").
The old ballad affirms that safety and comfort of the soul in overcoming the difficulties it faces are directly related to the dead person's willingness to have given charitably during their lifetime.. The poem on which it is based was first collected, in 1686, by John Aubrey. Aubrey also recorded that it was definitely being sung in 1616, but was believed to be much older.
by AKACroatalin April 18, 2015
Get the Lyke Wake Dirgemug. It’s a neologism invented by Lewis Carroll nearly 150 years ago and means Grumpy, crotchety, ill-tempered or as Carroll put it “uffish is a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish." Carroll invented the word and used it in the poem Jabberwocky which appears in the book “Through The Looking Glass”. It’s still used occasionally in the South West of England.
by AKACroatalin April 28, 2015
Get the Uffishmug. This is a phrase used to introduce aliases, nicknames, working names, legalised names, author’s pen names and so on. Identical in meaning to the old English word Yclept, it is often abbreviated to AKA.
by AKACroatalin May 17, 2015
Get the Also Known Asmug. It means having numerous uses, being versatile or capable of being used for a great many different things.
The Swiss Army Knife is a multi-purpose tool.
by AKACroatalin June 9, 2015
Get the Multi-purposemug. Logically enough workplace aggression is specifically aggression that occurs in the workplace. It is commonly found within a toxic workplace and can include a variety of unpleasant behaviours. These can range from verbal, (insulting people, spreading rumours, telling lies or maliciously instituting grievance procedures), to physical attacks (pushing, slapping, punching or attacking with a weapon). It’s the sort of behaviour which, if it was carried out on the street would, in many cases result in arrest by the police or prosecution in the Civil Courts.
by AKACroatalin May 26, 2015
Get the Workplace Aggressionmug.