1. Meant to have the same denotation as word, i.e., a term used to indicate agreement or assent or approval. Somewhere between "cool" and "okay". The word is used by people with a rudimentary to thorough knowledge of Latin (in which it means "word"), generally ironically, as it results from the application of an elevated, academic language to a "street" or "ghetto" term. The "v" is usually pronounced as an English "w", as that is how consonantal "v" is pronounced in classical Latin.
by atemperman January 25, 2004
describing or characterized by an impressive failure
by atemperman April 20, 2003
Acronym for "pretty sorry research". Resembles acronyms such as "ESR" and "EPR", which are legitimate scientific terms.
by atemperman January 24, 2004
verb: to dress or affect oneself so as to accentuate one's homosexuality. Conjugates as a french verb, thus:
1st person singular: Je me gaie
2nd person singular: Tu te gaies
3rd person singular: Il/Elle/On se gaie
1st person plural: Nous nous gayons
2nd person plural: Vous vous gayez
3rd person plural: Ils/Elles se gaient
1st person singular: Je me gaie
2nd person singular: Tu te gaies
3rd person singular: Il/Elle/On se gaie
1st person plural: Nous nous gayons
2nd person plural: Vous vous gayez
3rd person plural: Ils/Elles se gaient
I'm going out to Heaven tonight, so I'd better <i> me gayer </i> right now.
Queer Bash starts in ten minutes! Gayons-nous!
Queer Bash starts in ten minutes! Gayons-nous!
by atemperman April 20, 2003
A term combining "Oxford" and "Cambridge", the two oldest and most prestigious English universities.
The centrality of alcohol to social life is something that eve Oxbridge shares with the rest of the British universities.
by atemperman January 24, 2004
An attempted pluralization of the word "octopus". "Octopus", however, does not pluralize as most other words ending in "-us" borrowed from Latin. The proper Latin plural of "octopus" is "octopodes" (pronounced in English "awk-t@-POE-deez"). Saying "octopodes", however, is like pronouncing the first "r" in "February"--something seldom done and appreciated, however greatly, by very few. Your best bet is just to stick with the good old English pluralization, "octopuses".
While the two syllabontes of our mollusk neurobiology class differed in some ways, they both mentioned a discussion of how octopodes *octopi, while certainly not as intelligent as homines sapientes, were nonetheless the smartest of the invertebrata.
by atemperman January 25, 2004
noun: the quality that appears the possessor as dignity but appears to others as foolishness. Originated in a 2000 Saturday Night Live skit in which Al Gore and George W. Bush are playing Scrabble, and Bush attempts to add the word "dignitude." Gore challenges him to use it in a sentence, and Bush replies, "George W. Bush is a man of great dignitude."
by atemperman April 20, 2003