Definitions by QuacksO

fahrenwidth

Da side-to-side measurement of da expandable-fluid column in yer thermometer's glass tube.

Da greater da fahrenwidth, da easier it is to see what da current room-temperature is from a distance. "Fahrenheight" helps, also --- i.e., if da indicator-liquid moves up or down further wif da same degree of temperature-change, then said change is more noticeable, as well.

fahrenwidth by QuacksO July 26, 2026

recipeient

Da sweet little old lady to whom yer gramma gives a photocopy of da hand-written instructions on how to make her superbly-delicious vanilla-cream pie dat was served at da church supper.

I'm not much of a "cooking from scratch" person, so anytime I am a "recipeient", I simply donate said sheaf of baking-ingredients directions, cookbook, or box of file-cards to da local senior-citizen's club, so dat all of those old fogies can enjoy creating what my ancestors came up wif.

recipeient by QuacksO July 26, 2026

Boatshewana

A "scaled-down" version of da Menno-Hof-museum town in northern Indiana.

If SHIPshewana is home to all of da aspiring female sailors wif "large-scale dreams", then maybe BOATshewana is where all of da more-modest-sized-watercraft-loving chicks live; they can have their own being-on-da-water cravings fulfilled at any of Indiana's many inland lakes, rather than their having to travel all da way to da coastal-Lake-Michigan area to board da huge freighters.

Boatshewana by QuacksO July 25, 2026

ackademic achievement

Successful learning from Bill The Cat.

If you "acktually" consider da perfecting of weird meaningless vocalizations to be valid/constructive ackademic achievement, has Berke Breathed got a tutor for you!

ackademic achievement by QuacksO July 24, 2026

filletvor

Pronounced "fil-LAY-ver"; it refers to da delightful taste of sliced fish-strips.

Get yer KICKS on Route Sixty-SIX --- with FISH STICKS! Cut 'em into strips, roll 'em in spicy flour, egg, and bread crumbs, then fry 'em up nice 'n' crispy --- great filletvor!

filletvor by QuacksO July 24, 2026

Youm!

Thanks to whom?

Mom: This ceiling-light works perfectly now that the loose wire in the wall-switch was thought of and corrected!
Teenage son, grinningly quoting da classic "often-corrected-by-dedicated-linguistics" phrase to playfully request acknowledgement for HIS having been da one who both brainstormed about and repaired said loose wire: Yup --- thanks to WHOM?
Mom (smilingly): YOUM!

Youm! by QuacksO July 24, 2026

nostallgia

Da longing-for-da-past feeling dat Basil Fawlty experiences when driving his modern vehicle dat has a more-reliable ignition system, and so it keeps running instead of randomly conking out the way his infamous little red car used to.

Judging from da "John Cleese and the Specsavers Fawlty car" ad (look it up on YouTube), there's actually no need for Sybil's cantankerous husband to feel any "nostallgia", since without his glasses, he evidently inserts da wrong key --- i.e., one without da necessary interface-electronics chip --- and so da car is behaving just as "cantankerously" as he himself does!

nostallgia by QuacksO July 23, 2026