Octopod's definitions

poodle

One who cravenly does another's bidding, a metaphorical butt boy.

The Left calls Tony Blair "George Bush's poodle."

by octopod November 23, 2003

Irish channel

A neighborhood of New Orleans noted for its distinctive dialect, vaguely resembling both Southern and New York speech. See yat.

After he spoke two sentences, I knew he grew up in the Irish Channel.

by octopod November 30, 2003

bubbameister

A long story or old wives' tale, that is, something a grandma would tell. Yiddish, from "bubba," "grandmother."

"I asked about the family, and she started in on a bubbameister about hospitals."

by octopod October 18, 2008

culliones

Balls; courage; brutish masculinity. Fr. Italian "coglioni". Cf. Sp. cojones, Fr. cuillons; see break my balls.

You need a giant set of culliones to talk to Tony like that.

by Octopod November 8, 2003

kangaroo court

A tribunal where their ain't no justice.

Bankruptcy Court is such a kangaroo court, the judges' robes come with a pocket in front.

by Octopod November 6, 2003

singes capitulards bouffeurs du fromage

"Cheese-eating surrender monkeys."

Zeez Amurricans say we are ze singes capitulards bouffeurs du fromage.

by octopod July 11, 2004

popa'a

Tahitian for haole or European.

The worst kind of popa'a is a Frenchman.

by octopod November 23, 2003