QuacksO's definitions

resiprocate

To draw up a measure of a beverage through a straw shortly after someone you're with has done so from his own cup or glass.

If you plop two glasses of a particular drink down on da table in front of both you and a companion, and then start greedily sucking up your portion, don't arbitrarily expect your seat-partner to resiprocate --- either he may not be thirsty, or he may not care for whatever liquid-concoction you've served him.

by QuacksO December 22, 2023

Albunny, New York

Da large east-central-New-York municipality where they have lots of rabbits hoppin' around.

Elmer Fudd would have a field day in Albunny, New York; da only problem would be dat all of da local sporting-goods stores are probably owned by families who have fuzzy-animal-loving kiddos, and so they would probably refuse to sell Elmer ammunition for his infamous blunderbuss.

by QuacksO March 20, 2021

trillogy

A three-part literary work about songbirds.

If bird-lovers J.J. Audubon, R.T. Peterson, and J.M.M. Fisher had been collaborating authors, they could have created quite a comprehensive trillogy.

by QuacksO May 30, 2019

primprovise

To use creative measures to make yourself look good enough to "strut your stuff" during a period when ordinary dolling-up methods are not available.

I forgot my makeup kit, so I had to primprovise with red clay and black Sharpie-pen ink.

by QuacksO August 25, 2020

himdle

A male-human-caused hindering snag or other aggravating "hoop to jump through" that delays proceeding with a task or endeavor. Opposite of "herdle", a holdup caused by a female human.

A himdle is sometimes more difficult/time-consuming to overcome than a herdle because usually more men are in government-positions than women, and so more male officials may be involved with said snafu.

by QuacksO September 11, 2019

shiverlry

Da act of a guy's loaning his sweater/hoodie/coat to a lady who is not warm enough; he is therefore obliged to be chilly himself, but by thunder he's being da lady's gallant white knight to think of her comfort above his own.

I always carry an extra jacket in my day-pack whenever I go for a walk with a nice lady during cooler weather, so that I won't have to practice shiverlry if a stiff breeze comes up.

by QuacksO November 15, 2019

Novacaine

Soothing nerves-numbing effect dat you get from watching science/technology-documentaries on PBS.

Using Novacaine to help muscle-and-joint pain is all well and good, but if you spend extended periods savoring said colorful presentations on yer widescreen plasma, you might eventually get aches elsewhere in yer body from merely sitting still dat long.

by QuacksO May 3, 2025