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home in hose

Adjective: Set for life, established, successful, elated, on cloud nine.

Especially used to describe the emotional or financial state of having overcome a hurdle or having achieved a goal where success was uncertain.

Thought to be derived during WWII when hosiery was scarce and hard to obtain. Despite this origin, the adjective is not only applied to females.
Once you pass the bar exam, you're home in hose.

She married the love of her life and now she's home in hose.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
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hoot de snoot

Adjective describing something or someone believed to be more important or valuable than other things or people because of the snobby attitude accompanying the person or thing.

Not merely ordinarily pretentious, overpriced, snobby, vainglorious, or affected, but excessively so.
Knitter A: Let's go look at the new yarns at the hoot de snoot yarn store.

Knitter B: Yeah, then we can order them on line at a fraction of the price without the attitude.
by Ann Pearl Owen February 16, 2010
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busted

Adjective: Broken, nonfunctional

Colloquial term which can be used to describe things that are in pieces as busted dishes, but is more commonly used especially to describe mechanical devices that do no longer work.
I had to get my car towed 'cause it's busted.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
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fat and sassy

Adjective: Happy, elated, exuberant, in a fine state physically and emotionally, couldn't feel better, fit as a fiddle.

Rural Midwestern expression.
Question: How you doing?

Answer: Fat and sassy!
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
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fucked up

Adjective: totally nonfunctional, beyond repair.

Used to refer to a machine that is not just broken but which cannot be repaired.
My puter was broke so I took it to James to get it fixed -- now it is totally fucked up.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
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broke

Adjective, nonfunctional, in need of repair.

Rural usage, derived from past participle and/or the past tense of verb to break.

Usually used to refer to previously functioning machines which no longer work correctly.
The refrigerator's broke, we need to get it fixed.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
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boughten

Adjective: Purchased, bought rather than home made.

Frequently used in association with the word "store."

Archaic, rural usage derived from the obsolete past participle of the verb to buy.
My skirt was store boughten, not home made.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 2, 2008
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