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Definitions by Charlemagne1993

Festinate 

To hurry or hasten to complete one's work, especially to meet a deadline.
One has not been a student if one has not had to festinate madly on a project at one point or another

Michael spent his entire Friday in a state of frenzied festination as he did his best to make it look like he hadn't been idly sitting at his work desk during the last four days
Festinate by Charlemagne1993 June 17, 2017

Bombinate 

- Verb

To make a humming or buzzing noise.

{ < L. "bombilare" To buzz)
Our mother in her old age would often bombinate contentedly to herself as she pottered about her cottage

Michael quickly alienated himself from the other kids at his new school with his distinctive but disquieting tendency to bombinate aggressively in strangers' ears
Bombinate by Charlemagne1993 June 17, 2017
(Australian English)

A party or celebration, particularly a boisterous one.
Davo, mate!, we're holding a little shivoo Sunday arvo, wanna see you take Dazza on with the tequila shots!
Shivoo by Charlemagne1993 June 16, 2017
- Noun

1. The quality of being mordacious; sharp or sarcastic in style or tone.
2. A readiness or tendency to bite things.
The author's droll mordacity helps capture the sense of discontent and disillusionment that was prevalent in Northern England in the closing years of Thatcher's premiership

Michael's irrepressible mordacity ensured that his possessions, what few he had, as well as any individuals who came across him, very quickly found themselves covered in vicious bite marks
Mordacity by Charlemagne1993 June 16, 2017

Grumpy-wumpkins 

One who is grumpy for no good reason.
Adelia insisted on being a grumpy-wumpkins for a good two hours after the finish of the boardgame she'd lost, though several well brewed cups of tea eventually put her in good spirits again

Wee Willykins then kissed and hugged the hoppity pot and promised always to help the dollies and never to be an old grumpy-wumpkins again

Half-brick

A more portable and dimensionally-pleasing-to-the-eye variety of the common building brick. Useful for caving in a wanker's skull, lobbing at shop windows and/or riot control forces, throwing off the side of overpasses into oncoming traffic, or, occasionally, for use in building-related endeavours.
'Ere, wot a tosser! 'Eave a 'alf-brick at 'im will ya?'

Half-bricks proved popular missiles for combatant pilots in their aircraft during the opening stages of the first world war, before the synchronization gear enabling bullets to be fired through a plane's propellers had been invented and widely fitted out in aircraft by the two sides
Half-brick by Charlemagne1993 June 16, 2017
- Adjective

Having bean characteristics or form; resembling a bean.

- Noun

1. Anything that resembles or evokes comparisons with a bean.

2. (In science fiction) Any individual of the race of giant sentient bipedal extraterrestrial bean beings.
I say, what a beanoid appearance that fellow has!

Much to his annoyance, Tom's short ungainly stature meant he was often termed a beanoid by his friends and associates

Beanoid frigate inbound! Action stations men, gunners to the starboard turrets!
Beanoid by Charlemagne1993 February 27, 2017