Definitions by Pentozali

godekan 

A village square where people gather for weddings, festivals, religious meetings etc. in the North Caucasus. Pronounced goh-deh-KAHN.

The film showed a group of people waiting in the godekan for the bride to make her appearance.

godekan by pentozali January 13, 2009

robot 

Voicemail or an answering machine.

It was too late to call the bookstore, so I left a message on their robot to call me back.

robot by pentozali January 13, 2009

finkie 

A devotee of the increasingly popular Finnish spitz dog (suomenpystykorva).

Rachel is a finkie. She has such a cute dog!

finkie by pentozali January 12, 2009

internettle 

A web site that "stings" you with too many pop-up advertisements.

I don't recommend that site for your first choice. It's an internettle!

internettle by pentozali January 12, 2009

Haul-A-TB 

Bus or train full of ill, coughing and/or sneezing people. You never know what you're going to catch from them. It just might as well be TB!

Another ride on that Haul-A-TB and I can kiss all my sick leave goodbye!

Haul-A-TB by pentozali December 19, 2008

banh khot 

Small dome-shaped Vietnamese crepes filled with shrimp and colored/flavored with turmeric and coconut. Delicious but just about impossible to find in any Vietnamese restaurant on the US East Coast (although they're very easy to find on the US West Coast).

If you go to San Francisco or Seattle, no Vietnamese dinner is complete without banh khot for an appetizer.

banh khot by pentozali December 17, 2008

your call is important to us 

Perhaps the biggest bit of corporate and public-sector BS ever foisted upon us as middle- and lower-economic class people. Usually indicates that you'll have to endure ten to thirty minutes of bland wallpaper music or loops of repeated advertisements before a real human voice gets on the phone.

I tried to call my insurance company to find out about their rates for fire insurance, but all I got was "your call is important to us"!

your call is important to us by pentozali December 9, 2008