QuacksO's definitions

errind

A business-trip to town made by Ms. Brockovich.

Julia Roberts' character has lots of errinds to run in the course of her lawsuit against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

by QuacksO September 19, 2019

ribbons and beaus

Describes a group of paired singles where da gals do their hair in the old-fashioned way.

I love attending barn-dances and other traditional country-folk gatherings; it's refreshing to see all da ribbons and beaus there.

by QuacksO March 25, 2021

excessability

How easy it is go overboard on portions, expenditures, consumption, ornateness, etc.

If a simple slanted ramp would suffice, installing a hydraulic lift would be wheelchair-excessability,

by QuacksO March 30, 2025

three sheets to the wind

Being groggy and awareness-impaired due to there being one or more people nearby wif really "breezy" butts.

Everyone really pigged out at da free community baked-bean supper and then had an uproarious whizzpopping-party afterwards, and so a lot of dem went home totally "three sheets to the wind"!

by QuacksO March 22, 2023

broad-minded

How a male chauvinist claims to be in his general thinking regarding female-human-related matters, but in reality he either is "only interested in one thing" (i.e., he constantly "has broads on his mind") and/or views da fairer gender as merely annoying wider-hipped versions of himself.

Da Pentagon is full of arrogant gender-prejudiced stuffed-shirt officials who so-strongly favor a male-dominated military dat they cannot even show basic common sense when communicated with in certain ways; a prime example would be when General Halftrack asked to be transferred overseas --- "I asked them to send me abroad" --- but da arrogant "Washington windbags" were so "broad-minded" dat they misunderstandingly assumed dat he'd meant dat he merely wanted a female officer added to da ranks at Camp Swampy, and so said bumbling alcoholic lifer not only remained "stuck in da States", but he has also ended up being additionally burdened wif a huge lumbering feminist who consistently "pulls rank" and otherwise gives him and all da other male officers da same disapproving push-back dat his shrewish wife always has.

by QuacksO March 14, 2023

inTIMidated

How Toolman Taylor felt when his wife was seething mad about his having driven her antique Austin-Healey after she'd specifically forbidden him to do so.

Jill Taylor (not wanting to unleash her fury in front of the children): Boys --- OUT! (seeing her inTIMidated hubby starting to slither out the door, as well) Tim, IN!

by QuacksO March 5, 2022

upstairs vs. downstairs hangover

Refers to da ratio of how much your "upstairs" hangovers (i.e., "morning after" headaches, nausea, etc.) affect da flabby "hangover" --- i.e., floppily-drooping beer gut --- dat gradually develops "downstairs". Generally speaking it'll be about equal; in other words, da more alcohol you guzzle, da more of an "overhang" you'll get at your waistline.

Seeing other folks afflicted with an "upstairs vs. downstairs hangover" should be ample motivation to not start drinking yourself!

by QuacksO November 6, 2022