ANDY's definitions

aurumvorax

Vicious six-legged weasel-like creature with fur made of actual gold. Beware! It's a high-level monster and is a lot more vicious than it looks, although it's a great find for AD&D players more interested in treasure hoarding than adventuring.

"aurum" sounds like a Latin word root and is adapted from the Latin word for gold. "vorax" is probably just invented (though again it has a definite Latin sound).

Watch out! There's an aurumvorax hiding under your sofa!

I let the aurumvorax loose in the classroom, and everyone ran away (hee hee)

by Andy April 20, 2004

Moosii

plural of moose, more than one moose, alternative to mooses

What happened to you?? Were you sexually assaulted by a group of moosii?

by Andy November 11, 2004

Game Boy

A slang term for a gay boy. A different way to say it.

That game boy was checking out the other boys.

by Andy May 13, 2005

RFID

Spy-chip - possibly the scariest technology coming into use right now. They're tiny chips, some as small as a third of a millimetre, which can be hidden inside objects, packaging and even people, and which give a unique identity symbol if triggered by a scanner. In other words, every banknote, shoe or pair of jeans might have a unique ID allowing anyone with a scanner to track it - the government could find out your whereabouts and where you bought your clothes, criminals could scan you to find out how much money you were carrying and ID cards, passports etc could contain chips which could be scanned from a distance.

Currently being introduced by WalMart in products and packaging, with 100 other companies interested. Euro banknotes might contain the chips. A version which can be injected in humans, the VeriChip, is now being tested, and several US states including New York are discussing forcibly injecting the chips in homeless people.

It stands for Radio Frequency ID.

by Andy May 7, 2004

KFC

A term used to describe fingering a girl, because of the KFC phrase; "It's Finger-licking good!"

So what did you do last nite then?
Well I got a bit of KFC.
Dude!

by Andy June 16, 2004

Devastator

Composite form of the Constructicons. Devastator is a massive, mainly green humanoid robot which is immensely strong and destructive, but also very slow and stupid.

Devastator is given a drubbing by the Dinobots in Transformers the Movie.

by Andy July 22, 2004

Newspeak

In George Orwell's dystopia "Nineteen Eighty-Four", Newspeak was the corrupted/purged language everyone was supposed to speak according to the totalitarian dictatorship which ran everything. Words with subversive potential and those which had unclear meanings were eliminated, along with references to the past. The attempt was to bring language, and therefore thought, into line with the wishes of the rulers.

It is also used to refer to any instance of politically-invented language put out through apparatuses of propaganda and social control or by spindoctors.

Words like people-trafficker, collateral damage and downsizing are examples of real-world Newspeak.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't make up new words. Nor does it mean that every political or invented word should be suspect. The point is that new words should expand meaning, not contract it. If a word is used to cover up abuses by the powerful or to manipulate people in favour of the existing regime, it's Newspeak.

by Andy May 1, 2004