Pastiness

1. The quality of being pale or unhealthy-looking; of being pasty.

2. Collective noun for a group of pasty (usually white) people, particularly the type that inhabit their parents' basement and rarely venture outdoors or engage in social interaction.
"His skin had acquired the pastiness that comes of a life spent entirely indoors"

"A pastiness coalesced outside the comic book store in anticipation of the release of DC's latest Wonder Woman special"

"A large pastiness formed outside Parliament House today protesting the government's intentions to review its game censorship laws. Two passing policeman were able to dispel the crowd before major sunburns could set in, but only after repeated threats to call the ringleaders' parents"
by Charlemagne1993 September 27, 2016
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Baked Beans

- Noun

A delicious, nutritious and convenient food consisting of cooked navy beans in a sauce. Often sold in tins that, when full, can also be used as weapons which people's skulls can be smashed open with.

- Verb

The act of caving in a wanker's skull with the vigorous application of a tin of baked beans against their head.
Jason waxed wrathful when it emerged that someone had stolen some of his precious baked beans tins

Michael's head exploded in a shower of brain juices as Charles, leaping off a nearby fencepost with a fierce screeching, baked beansed him forcefully over the back of his head
by Charlemagne1993 August 09, 2017
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Rangery

- Adjective {RANG-ger-ree}

A variation of the internet slang term 'angery', specifically used to describe angry/angery individuals who are also rangas (redheads; gingers). Usually used in the context of rangas responding badly (or ostensibly so) to conversations relating to red hair-related topics such as melanin levels, sensitivity to UV light, temperament, pyromania or sexual desirability.

- Noun

Anger (whether real or purported) as manifested by rangas, particularly in relation to red hair-related topics.
1.
To say that Charles was merely rangery at Jason's continual gibes about his general desirability and his susceptibility to sunburn would be to put things mildy. He was incensed

2.
Like a lot of rangas, Lauren lived in a near-perpetual state of rangery
by Charlemagne1993 July 03, 2020
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Semiwhelmed

- Adjective

The state of being moderately emotionally affected by something; of being somewhere between underwhelmed and overwhelmed emotionally.

Often used in situations where the emotional effect of a circumstance is tempered by its foreseeability or inevitability.
Residents in the council estate building who shared a floor with Jenna were semiwhelmed to finally learn that their neighbour had, to fatal results, mixed copious quantities of alcohol with various of her prescription medications

As Michael was semiwhelmed to eventually apprehend, none of the other people at the Work for the Dole centre were at all interested in catching up with him after work, or indeed ever
by Charlemagne1993 July 03, 2020
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Giddification

- Noun

1.
The act or process of giddifying; of making giddy, dazed.

2.
The state or condition of being giddy or delirious.

3.
Confusion, bewilderment or perplexity, especially of the sort that makes one appear hallucinatory or deranged.
1.
Ever with a devious mind to the giddification of his female coworkers, William made a point of plying them with as much alcohol as he could at the company office party

2.
For her giddification Jenna, in her solitary younger years, took to burning treated pine logs, the noxious fumes from the fires of which she would vigorously inhale

3.
To the alarmed giddification of his benefits assessor, and in spite of the woman's futile injunctions that he stop what he was doing, Michael obdurately proceeded to fill his syringe with heroin, strap his arm, and give himself a third hit of the drug, smacking his lips and settling onto his back in satisfaction once he had done so. She, he had spitefully decided, could be the one to deal with the consequences
by Charlemagne1993 July 03, 2020
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Perthian

- Noun (pl. Perthians) (Less commonly, Perthite)

A native or inhabitant of Perth, Western Australia.

Inaccurately perceived by foreigners as being a progressive and trendy individual (their city, incidentally, consistently ranks amongst the world's most livable), The Perthian is (more correctly) stereotyped by other Australians as unsophisticated and bogan, to a level almost on par with that of the average Queenslander.

- Adjective

Of, or relating to Perth (Western Australia).
1.
Perthian: "I may not be able to read and write, but I'm a Perthian, and proud of it!"
Non-Perthian Australian: "... But being a Perthian's not something to be proud of..."
Non-Perthian Australian 2: "... And what happened to your cultural cringe, are you guys even Australian or what?"
<Non-Perthians share an uneasy look>

2.
Non-Perthian Australian 1: "Mate, get a load of all the ugg boots, flannel shirts and young teenage mums pushing prams"
Non-Perthian Australian 2: "Indeed, one could say the atmosphere here is very… Perthian…"
<Both snigger>
by Charlemagne1993 April 26, 2014
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Vellichor

- Noun

The strange wistfulness of a second-hand bookshop.
Walking past my local bookstore I am always filled with a recondite sense of vellichor

Vellichor gripped her as she crossed the worn wooden threshold of the old bookshop
by Charlemagne1993 September 15, 2017
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