Definitions by QuacksO

littlery 

A game of chance with only paltry-amount payout-prizes.

If you hafta buy dozens or hundreds of tickets before you win da LOTtery, said winnings may feel merely like you played da LITTLEry.

littlery by QuacksO October 2, 2020

de-posit 

Refers to da sour-faced "significant reducing of da total-amount figure" action performed by da irritated bank-teller who processes da night/weekend deposits, after she actually **counts** da cash or totals up da checks dat you placed in da deposit-envelope and inserted into da night-depository, only to discover dat da supposedly-large amount dat you'd claimed to have deposited when you'd filled in da "deposit amount" line on da envelope was grossly "inflated" --- i.e., you claimed to have deposited a sizeable amount, when in reality you had merely left a few bucks in the envelope! Well, serves you right --- I mean, you didn't truly believe dat da teller wasn't gonna actually COUNT da cash or checks in da envelope to CONFIRM dat you really had deposited as much as you'd claimed you did, didja??? I mean, zheee-yeesh... if bank-tellers always just unquestioningly trusted da stated amounts of people's deposits, then many folks would just gleefully scribble in some astronomical amount whenever they made a "non-face-to-face" deposit (i.e., not making da deposit in person, where da teller would count it right there in front of you), and then da banks would be obliged to credit da depositers with a lot of unearned income!

I'm an honest guy, and so I've never tried to actually deceive a bank into crediting me for more money than I'd actually deposited; the farthest I've ever gone is to merely play a little joke on the teller by inserting a phony million-dollar bill in among the fives and tens in the deposit envelope before deadpanningly handing it to the teller, and then seeing the teller's surprised/amused reaction when she sees the obviously-fake "bar-M" bill. The teller then performs a quick "de-posit" to accurately record the much-more-paltry sum that I'm actually submitting, and then smugly hands me back the gag-bill along with my deposit-receipt.

de-posit by QuacksO October 2, 2020

religious engine-cranking 

Onomatopoeia description for the sound of a starter-motor.

When cold-starting a vehicle with a carburetor instead of fuel injection, one should use this religious engine-cranking method:
(1) Push-and-release the gas-pedal to the floor twice. ("Pumpa-pumpa")
(2) Crank the engine for one second. ("Jesuit-esuit")
(3) Push-and-release the gas-pedal to the floor two more times. ("Pumpa-pumpa")
(4) Crank the engine for one second again. ("Jesuit-esuit")
(5) Push-and-release the gas-pedal to the floor three more times. ("Pumpa-pumpa-pumpa")
(4) Crank the engine again for several rotations; it should start this time. ("Jesuit-esuit-esuit-esuit-vrOOOOM!!")

religious engine-cranking by QuacksO September 30, 2020

exhumination 

What unfeeling/opportunistic physicians used to do with recently-buried humans --- i.e., illegally remove said fresh corpses from their graves to use for dissection and other medical research.

In "The Adventured Of Tom Sawyer", Doc Robinson is presented as a young naive medical practitioner who was overly trusting of others; had he had an ounce of savvy or common sense, he would have known better than to enlist the help of the town drunk and a known career-criminal in his shady exhuminations.

exhumination by QuacksO September 29, 2020

hey b.s. corpus

A bunch of legal claptrap in which a prisoner requests to be released from jail.

In the musical "Chicago", Billy Flynn presents a flashy and compelling "writ of hey b.s. corpus" which gets da selfish murderess Roxie off da hook, despite her indeed being "Gil T. Azell" of her accused crime.

hey b.s. corpus by QuacksO September 27, 2020

tubal liegation 

Falsely saying that you've had your "plumbing pinched" so that eager-but-not-wanting-the-pitter-patter-of-little-feet studs will feel safe in "doing it" with you.

Checking the medical records of a hot chick is a wise thing to do before "going all the way with her", since sometimes a lady's assurances that she's been surgically altered is just a tubal liegation.

tubal liegation by QuacksO September 26, 2020

jeery of your peers 

An amusedly-unimpressed group of folks of similar age and background to you

In the 1924 Will Rogers comedy-film "A Truthful Liar", his wild and wacky tales of his assorted adventures in the world of politics are related in front of a "jeery of your peers" audience of fellow townspeople who disdainfully wave off Will's stories as hogwash.

jeery of your peers by QuacksO September 24, 2020