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Definitions by AKACroatalin

Brouhaha 

Brouhaha (pronounced: /ˈbru hɑ hɑ / ) is a noun and means a noisy and overexcited response or reaction to something. It can be verbal or physical and can vary from two people in a noisy slanging match to mobs rampaging through city centres. It can also refer to the artificial pseudo-excitement generated by the media over something as monumentally boring as an election.
When Sue caught Malcolm stealing her sweets there was a right brouhaha
Brouhaha by AKACroatalin April 17, 2015

Overexcited

Overexcited means really wound up and hyper prone to overreaction and emotional outbursts; crazy, bonkers.
Calm down, don't get overexcited.
Overexcited by AKACroatalin April 17, 2015

Slanging Match

British slang, a slanging match is an argument; a dispute in which insults and accusations are made by each party against the other
Television debates by politicians often deteriorate into a slanging match.
Slanging Match by AKACroatalin April 17, 2015
1 America – a country that has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. John O'Hara and he was an American.
2 America has progressed from barbarism to decadence without the intervening stage of civilization. George Bernard Shaw
3 America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between. Oscar Wilde.
Numerous other people have been credited with expressing that sentiment or something similar including Henry James, another American. However, in all probability the phrase originates with Georges Clemenceau when he was President of France.
America, so many people seem to dislike you.
America by AKACroatalin April 17, 2015

Viper's Bugloss 

Viper’s Bugloss is unusual as it is the name for two entirely different things:
1 A common European plant "Echium Vulgare" also known as Blueweed, which has rough, hairy leaves and the flowers start off pink but turn blue as they mature;
2 A European moth "Hadena Irregularis" which flies from July to August, believed extinct in the UK due to loss of habitat;
So despite sounding a bit sinister, it’s just the name of a couple of nature’s minor oddities.
"Oh look, Viper's Bugloss!"
"Which? The plant or the moth?"
Viper's Bugloss by AKACroatalin April 16, 2015

Squitter 

Slang from South West England, a squitter is a thoroughly nasty, smelly, disgusting squirt of liquid or semi-liquid faecal matter. Usually used as a plural, the squitters is an attack of diarrhoea brought on usually by overindulgence in alcoholic refreshment. Using squitter in the singular form means a single squirt of repulsive, stinking, watery shit and by extension a repulsive, stinking, watery shit of a person. In both cases the best thing to do is flush the toilet with plenty of disinfectant.
"Malcolm, you're nothing but a two-faced squitter!"
Squitter by AKACroatalin April 16, 2015
Also seen spelled lich or lyke, lych is the old English name for a dead body or corpse. The name derives from the Old English word "Lic" meaning a corpse.
"Cuz they wuz afeard of 'un, they 'ad to make a stone coffin for 'is lych"
Lych by AKACroatalin April 16, 2015