Definitions by QuacksO
shutter-shudder
An involuntary muscle-twitching dat a camera-shy person feels from either having to press da release-button to take a photo, or when he hears da click of da camera when a picture is being taken of him.
One simple way to mostly eliminate image-blurring from fairly-minor shutter-shudder is to use a fast exposure-speed (and a flashbulb, too, if it's fairly low-light conditions); you may need to use a suitably large lens and wide aperture-setting to accommodate said swift-click camera-snap.
shutter-shudder by QuacksO January 8, 2020
cusstom
Da local standard or accepted norm regarding profanity. Da funny story about the little girl helping the construction-workers build a house next door is a prime example of this.
I love horses and I detest "salty" language, so I enjoy visiting my Amish friends on both accounts... they give me "free rein" (pun intended!) of their barns and fields to go and pet their large glossy-maned work-buddies all I want, and they always speak civilly to me because they have a strict zero-tolerance cusstom.
ad-verse possession
A legal term for when a self-proclaimed "servant of The Great One" mails out Good-Book-passage-laced flyers touting his beliefs, then uses said Bible-blabbing junk-mail to lawfully take possession of one or more dwellings or other valuable objects, particularly those owned by "blindly faithful" people who never interfere with anything that they naively view as being "of divine origin".
I always just write "REFUSED --- RETURN TO SENDER" on any ecclesiastical ephemera I receive, to hopefully avoid any future problems with attempts at ad-verse possession.
ad-verse possession by QuacksO January 8, 2020
citation-spelling nightmare
What a member of da "area's finest" --- especially one who never did too well in grammar-school --- finds himself faced with when trying to scribble out a summons-to-appear slip involving people/objects/locales with less-than-common names.
News flash --- Flustered MPs at da local naval-base encountered a major citation-spelling nightmare this evening when trying to write up a PECCARY who had committed da PECCADILLO of illegally entering da ARMORY and engaging in a PECKADILLO with an ARMADILLO dat it met there.
citation-spelling nightmare by QuacksO January 8, 2020
eggnoggin
Da headachy fuzzy-brained feeling dat you wake up with after an evening of gluttonously guzzling "thickened flavored milk" Christmas-cordial. Said painful woozy hangover can occur even if said super-rich liquid-libation isn't of the "spiked" variety, since each sip packs so many calories and carbs.
dustination
Can refer to either:
(1) Da wastebasket where you periodically dump yer loaded debris-scoop while sweeping up.
(2) Wherever famed actor Hoffman is heading towards at any given time.
(1) Da wastebasket where you periodically dump yer loaded debris-scoop while sweeping up.
(2) Wherever famed actor Hoffman is heading towards at any given time.
I do indeed appreciate my physically-inform buddy's offer to help me tidy up, but da prob is dat he isn't very steady on his feet or able to keep a proper grip on da pan when carrying it to da waste-bin, and so he usually spills some of its contents before he reaches his dustination.
dustination by QuacksO January 6, 2020