half a crown

£2.50 Two Pounds and Fifty pence in modern parlance. In 'old money' 2/6 two shillings and sixpence = twelve-and-a-half 'p', but with the rise of inflation, half a crown has more of a resonance with £2.50p

Hey Malcolm, can I have half a crown to cover your entry money for next year's Middlesex League?

by Jonathan FeBland June 27, 2008

Shpereicfic

Shaped like a Potato. Potato-shaped.

i) That guest-lecturer we had in last week was rather Shpereicfic.

ii) "Potatoes, Shmotatoes." "True, but anything with a Shpereicfic shape gets my vote!"

by Jonathan FeBland May 12, 2007

baker's hundred

a baker's hundred is 110 or $110 or £110.

The decorator asked me for a ton but I gave him a baker's hundred as I could see he'd done a really good job!

by Jonathan FeBland June 27, 2008

Pi Day

In Europe, this day is celebrated on 22nd July. Pi used to be calculated in Ancient Greece as a fraction loosely calculated as 22/7.

Hey Joe, are you going to be having Pizza Pie or Apple Pie to celebrate this year's Pi Day?

by Jonathan FeBland March 14, 2007

spinguine

A cross between spaghetti and linguine. Thinner than spaghetti but not so thin as linguine.

I just had a very tasty spinguine bolognese for lunch; now I'm going to get a frappuccino to round things off.

by Jonathan FeBland January 23, 2007

Webiste

Website-ophile. A lover of websites.

i) My new webdesigner is a real webiste. It's seriously helpful having such a good pro on board.

ii) Some sites are quite plain and simple, but to understand some of the complex ones that use Flash animation for example, you have to be a bit of a webiste.

by Jonathan FeBland May 12, 2007

Webiste

This neologism started off life as a typo but I believe it deserves a better fate. Webiste claims 930,000 Google hits in April, 2007 which means that it now deserves to be taken seriously. The meaning I feel that best suits the word is "a lover of Websites" i.e. a Website-ophile.

I've worked with half-a-dozen Web-designers before, but I have to say that Joe is a real Webiste and I'd never work with anyone else on a project again.

by Jonathan FeBland April 29, 2007