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indivigil

A single person who watches or occupies a particular locale.
Lots of indivigils from all over da country may gather in a certain area and hold lighted candles to commemorate a certain famous event.
by QuacksO June 18, 2024
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Sherlock Ohms

A late-19th-century detective who ferreted out resistance-causing corrosion and other conduction-faults in electrical and telephone/telegraph wiring.
"Sherlock Ohms" can also be used to describe how veteran actor Dennis Hoey pronounces the famous detective's name in the Basil Rathbone series.
by QuacksO May 31, 2019
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squintroduction

Refers to a "So-and-So, this is So-and-So" names-stating meeting whereby one or both of said newly-met parties have visibly-suspicious narrowed-eyed reservations regarding da true identity, character, and/or intentions of da other just-been-verbally-acquainted-with-him individual.
If Benedetto had been presented to one or more of his immediate adoptive-family members by using his assumed-identity title of "Prince/Count Andrea Cavalcanti", said meeting would likely have been a squintroduction, as they would have thought that he looked remarkably like their own adopted son!
by QuacksO April 28, 2025
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ingenieous

Describes a super-clever thought or action of a vaporous denizen of a magic lamp or corked bottle.
In da infamous "chronic divorcé and genie" joke, said clueless-about-ladies mortal turned out to be more ingenieous than he'd realized, in dat said frequently-released-from-confinement entity felt obliged to build him da originally-requested transatlantic bridge after all. :P
by QuacksO October 14, 2025
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observe Egyptian waterway

A.k.a., "See Nile"; this term refers to a "somewhat-out-of-it" older person's delusional fantasies, hallucinations, forgetfulness, and other indications/symptoms of his being "in la-la land".
True story --- yesterday I helped my elderly disabled friend wif his home-entertainment system, then gave him a ride to da local convenience store. While there, I observed another elderly dude wif a fancy late-'90's Lincoln Town Car, and spoke admiringly to him about da car. I then went and sat in my own car to wait for my aged friend to finish shopping. When he did re-emerge from da store a few minutes later, he chatted a bit and expressed admiration to da antique car's owner as he was on his own way into da store, then turned and got into da car's front passenger's seat and closed da door. Well, naturally, I assumed dat da car's owner had himself offered my friend a ride home, and so I tentatively went to confirm wif my friend dat he would no longer need a ride home from me. He looked a bit puzzled at my question, and then said dat no, he'd still thought dat I was gonna transport him back to his apartment. I actually had to (super-pleasantly and gently, of course, since it was obviously just a completely honest mistake) verbally point out to him dat he was in fact sitting in a different car --- "Well, ummmmm... MY car is over there... you're sitting in this OTHER man's car" --- before he finally "woke up" to da fact dat he was currently occupying da wrong vehicle. So as we were leaving, I smilingly joked wif my friend dat perhaps he had begun to "observe Egyptian waterway", as in, to become somewhat "see Nile". He took my gentle jocular ribbing in good humor.
by QuacksO July 11, 2021
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Shushoni

A tribe of Native people in the American southwest whose members prefer less loud/voluminous speech than many other Native Americans do.
When Jeff Dunham's puppet Peanut described Native Americans as "one who go, 'Hey-yah, ho-yuh, hey-yah, ho-yuh!'", he obviously wasn't thinking of the Shushoni tribe.
by QuacksO May 18, 2019
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hosspitality

Welcoming atmosphere provided by friendly four-legged mammals with shaggy manes and warm velvety muzzles.
Anytime I enter da corral wif a bucket of oats, I am instantly surrounded by super-sociable half-ton animals --- yeah, yeah, yeah --- it's kinda fun to be da center of attention, but I could really do without all da hosspitality right then.
by QuacksO May 21, 2022
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