Knighshade's definitions

Fur-bearing trout

A fearsome critter that supposedly lives in Montana that resembles a trout, yet nests in trees and is covered in fur. Its fur is purportedly very fine, and thus extremely valuable.

Woah! That fur-bearing trout is even cooller than the jackelope I saw earlier!

by Knighshade July 11, 2004

shat

Shat ( ''pronounced'' shat). Though this is not Old English, it is the past participle of s--t. From Anglo-Saxon (Old English) ''bescätan'', "befowled".

Austin and Nigel Powers: "And then she shat on a turtle" (written in subtitles).

by Knighshade July 10, 2004

standard system.

A very old system of measurement which is used by Britain and the U.S.
These are the basic and not so basic measurements of length in order.

barleycorn (570,240 in a lea.)
inch (3 bc.)
hand (4 in.)
foot (3 hd.)
yard (3 ft.)
fathom (2 yrd.)
furlong (110 fm.)
mile (16 fur.)
league (3 mi)

Some people insist that a rod (don't let your mind stray) is part of the standard, but, since it doesn't multiply like the others (a rod is 16.5 feet), I wouldn't include it.

Americans and Brits use the standard system because we want to be different from the rest of the world — were not some sort of brain-washed, fluoride-addicted zombie — we are indies! (My apologies to anyone who has no idea what I just wrote)

by Knighshade July 11, 2004

Jackelope

A fearsome critter resembling a jack rabbit with antelope horns and a pheasant's tail. It is said to yoddle after lonely cowboys. Contraction of ''jack rabbit'' + ''antelope''.

Did you hear that, Cassidy? It sounds like a jackelope. Reminds me of the hodag we saw the other day.

by Knighshade July 11, 2004

zeus

The divine name of the leader of the ancient '''Greek''' pantheon; '''Not''' preserved by Roman Catholicism in the "Latin-derived bastardizations" of the Hebrew name Yeshua, and not adopted at all by Christianity.

The Hispanic pronunciation of Jesus is "hay-soos", because that is exactly how it looks to someone who speaks spanish.

Jesus in English is pronounced phonetically as well, which is why we say "jee-zuss", and any idiot who thinks the French ''je'' is pronounced "jee" needs to go back to high school.

In Greece they spell Zeus, ''Dias''

by Knighshade July 10, 2004

high-low

A tree-hugging hippie. So called after hylozoism — the belief that trees have souls.

Hey look over there! Bellingham's full of high-lows!

by Knighshade July 11, 2004

gizembluck

'''gi•zem•bluck''' ( ''pronounced'' gih'-zehm-bluk). A euphemism; comparable to rats, crap, drat, or dang; used to express mild disappointment. Probably a contraction of god + d--n + f--k.

Gizembluck! I can't find where I put my camera!

by Knighshade July 10, 2004