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 01, 2006

knobjack

(noun) Out in the cold your balls go hard and contract against the knobshaft, lifting the knob horizontal

Judging by the knobjack in Paul's swimming trunks, he'd been in the water some time.

by Alarick September 12, 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

spearside

on the male line of the family (from spear + side);
the spear was the traditional and typical male instrument in hunter-gatherer societies.
distaffside

no dear, that was inherited from your great-aunt spearside

by Alarick September 02, 2006

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

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 01, 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 02, 2006