Ann Pearl Owen's definitions
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.
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.
She married the love of her life and now she's home in hose.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
Get the home in hosemug. 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.
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.
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
Get the hoot de snootmug. 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.
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.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
Get the bustedmug. Adjective: Happy, elated, exuberant, in a fine state physically and emotionally, couldn't feel better, fit as a fiddle.
Rural Midwestern expression.
Rural Midwestern expression.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
Get the fat and sassymug. Adjective: totally nonfunctional, beyond repair.
Used to refer to a machine that is not just broken but which cannot be repaired.
Used to refer to a machine that is not just broken but which cannot be repaired.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
Get the fucked upmug. 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.
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.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 4, 2008
Get the brokemug. 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.
Frequently used in association with the word "store."
Archaic, rural usage derived from the obsolete past participle of the verb to buy.
by Ann Pearl Owen April 2, 2008
Get the boughtenmug.