Alarick's definitions

glad

(adjective) describes a mood of stable happiness, state of elation, also (esp. males) arousal. Noun: Gladness; adverb: gladly; verb: gladden

Just thinking of Georgie's sensuousness made him glad

by Alarick September 13, 2006

wordbook

(noun) a compilation of words with their meanings in a given language. "Urban Dictionary" is a wordbook, since it is more compilation than pronunciation guide (the true derivation of the word "dictionary").

for correct current usage, Max always had recourse to the wordbook called "Urban Dictionary".

by Alarick September 19, 2006

Eastercob

A bun made from pretzel-dough pretzel but formed not into a sausage, but a ball, dipped as with the pretzel into soda, and slit across the top to promote opening whilst baking. This gives the baked product a female aspect suggestive of fertility easter

Early that Easter morning, John had been down to the bakers to buy eastercobs for breakfast with his girlfriend.

by Alarick October 2, 2006

bungle

(verb) to cock something up, to make a bad job of it, to complete a task incompetently.

The plumber bungled the cistern repair. Now it's raining through the ceiling.

by Alarick September 6, 2006

Pretzel

(noun) a delicious salt-bakery to accompany beer etc. The dough consists of fine wheatflour, fine maltflour, yeast, salt, fat and water. The dough is rolled into a thin sausage and dipped before baking into soda solution (NaHCO³) - this gives a lovely chestnut sheen to the crust. Crushed rocksalt is applied to the crust and the pretzel is baked - ready!
Thre crossarm form of the pretzel gives it its name - from the Italian braccio (Latin bracellus), arm.

A butter-pretzel with freshly ground coffee for breakfast -delicious!

by Alarick October 1, 2006

haven

(noun. pron. hay-v'n) place of safety, place to repair to in a storm, natural harbour, port, coastal inlet, berth with channelled access

When the sea became threatening that night, we returned to the safe haven of St. Jean de Luz rather than riding it out.

by Alarick September 10, 2006

dodginess

disreputability, tendency towards the dishonest, state of doubtful authentification

She (von Speyr) had a long series of visions into saints' lives (eternalised as the "Book of All Hallows") which reads like so many school reports and has a tendency towards theological dodginess.

by Alarick September 2, 2006