Make peace with the donkey

PHRASE:
To accept one's fate. To give in to the inevitable.
From an old saying of unknown origin.
"Fate is a stubborn mule; sometimes you've got to give in and make peace with the donkey."
"Joe decided to make peace with the donkey and accept his punishment like a man."
"There's no point in living in the past. Make peace with the donkey and get on with your life."
by James J. Mitchell September 07, 2006
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fussbudget

NOUN:
A person who is always complaining or putting up a fuss. Derived from a combination of the word "fuss" and "budget," which used to mean a type of container.
Stop complaining, you old fussbudget.

Shirley's such a fussbudget. All she ever does is whine.
by James J. Mitchell October 23, 2006
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double baking

VERB:
To listen to one's stereo while simultaneously lying on the couch watching television with the sound turned down.
This is based on the fact that those who simply lie on the couch watching TV are couch potatoes, therefore they must be "baking." It's even worse if they're doing two worthless things simultaneously: hence, they are "double baking."
It follows that they would be double baked couch potatoes for those who care.
"I was so bored that I got on the couch and spent the evening double baking with 'Seinfeld' and 'Exile on Main Street.'"
"Are you just gonna lie there double baking, or are you goin' with me to Joey's?"
by James J. Mitchell September 01, 2006
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kvik

NOUN:
One's stuff, junk, geedunk. Also could mean mud, or anything icky that one tracks in on their boots or gets on their shirt.
Secondary meaning - Bullcrap or horse sh-t.
Pronounced like it looks - like quick with a German accent.
(First coined in the midwest in the early 1970's.)
"I'm sick and tired of all your kvik cluttering up my apartment!"
"After cutting through my wet yard, he tracked kvik all over the brand-new carpeting."
"Let's cut through all the kvik. What are you trying to say?"
"Bob just sat at the kitchen table and started diggind brown, waxy kvik out of his ear with his finger. How gross is that?"
by James J. Mitchell September 01, 2006
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Abdominally enhanced

ADJECTIVE:
Politically correct way of saying "fat." Obese. Porcine.
"I'm not fat, I'm abdominally enhanced."
"Who's the abdominally enhanced fellow standing over there."
by James J. Mitchell September 07, 2006
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Noss

VERB:
To act weird in public just for grins. To play a practical joke. To try to freak people out by calculatedly bizarre behavior. To mess with peoples' minds.
NOUN: The act itself.
"We like to noss whenever we're in a crowd."
"Don't mind me, I'm just nossing."
"Do you think his act was serious, or was it just a big noss?"
"I noss, therefore I'm weird."
Term coined in Indianapolis, Indiana in early 1970's.
by James J. Mitchell September 07, 2006
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Hulamagatchie

NOUN:
Thingamajig, whatchamacallit, wossname, thingamabob. Term used to describe something whose exact name is unknown.
First overheard in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1973.
"Hand me that there hulamagatchie, will ya?"
"You can't look at just one aspect of the thing; you've got to consider the entire hulamagatchie."
by James J. Mitchell September 01, 2006
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