Octopod's definitions

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

stuffed shirt

A wealthy, self-important, overly formal type; a fellow with a stick up his arse. A pompous ass.

"Have your heard? Cholmondely is in love with a horse!"
"Do tell! Is it a mare or a stallion?"
"Oh, a mare, of course. Nothing queer about Cholmondely!"

by octopod February 24, 2004

Sweet Potato Queens

A purportedly humorous cult of Southern women given to vulgar displays at local agrarian parades.

She became a complete Sweet Potato Queens groupie, and soon after lost her reason.

by octopod November 5, 2003

go all ghetto

Behave in a stereotypically African-American manner, either in dress, languance, or ass whuppin'.

If you don't shut up, I'ma go all ghetto on yo' triflin' cracka ass.

by octopod August 4, 2007

up shit's creek in a barbed-wire canoe

In serious trouble. Typically Australian version of "up the creek without a paddle."

When I reached for my credit card and found it was gone, I understood I was up shit's creek in a barbed-wire canoe.

by octopod August 25, 2004

hoi polloi

Namby-pamby phrase for the masses, or the great unwashed. Fr. Ancient Greek "the many." Saying "the hoi polloi" is an ineffictive attempt at literary snobbery

We read The Atlantic; hoi polloi read People.

by octopod June 12, 2004