Blue Cawdrey's definitions

Idiot Broth

UK: Name given to a range of drinks prefered by people with a predisposition to alcoholism recognisable by their low price and high alchohol content.

Including:
VP, QC Sherry or fortified wine.
Tennants Super, Carlsberg special Lager
Diamond white Cider aka Petrol.
Newcastle Brown (Dependant on usage).

An alternitive term is Sheep Dip.

Drunk guy in shop doorway with optional, urine, vomit, dirty blanket...

Geez us Fify P fora cupa tee mate.
(I need fifty pence towards another bottle of drink).

Passer by: Poor old cunt, if I give him fifty pence he will spend it on idiot broth, Oh what the hell, here y'are.

by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004

pound to a pinch of shit

UK: A pretty good bet that something is going to happen.

Pound = UK money.

I'll bet you a pound to a pinch of shit that its raining when we get back of holiday.

by Blue Cawdrey November 23, 2004

intercap

A way of writing familar to computer programmers. Some high level computer languages do not understand spaces. Sometimes the underscore is used as a substitution or alternetivly Intercapping is used to join words.
This sometimes filters through to mainstream use in written communication.

startPsuedocode:

Rem Underscoring
var_one random_Number = (1*16);

Rem InterCapping
varOne randomNumber = (1*16);

EOF

Intercapping
UsedInNormalCommunication
Also
DefiesTheMostAdvancedSpellcheckers.

by Blue Cawdrey November 19, 2004

Let the moths out

Hint to a tight arse that it is their turn to buy a round at the bar. It refers to a seldomly opened wallet or purse.

Come on Scrooge are you going to let the moths out.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004

dead as a doornail

Goes way past brain death, if your are dead as a doornail prepare to become a 'hotel for worms'.
Dodos perhaps are the only creatures with a similar lack of animation; see dead as the dodo.

On the morticians slab both Qusay and Uday were laid out cold, both dead as a doornail, they looked so peacfull that it made me really happy to see them lying there.

by Blue Cawdrey November 23, 2004

shit itself

Technical term for frequent computer behaviour when running Microsoft Operating Systems, often accompanied by a blue screen or memory dump. Will often happen just before saving work or towards the end of a large download.
Usually remedied by liberal application of the three fingered salute.

Crap on crap! the MS box has shit itself again.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004

Short arm inspection

The part of a medical inspection when the doctor asks the (male) inspectee to cough.

Get the platoon lined up in front of the medical officer for short arm inspection.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004