Da super-economizing version of "cough 'n' sputter"; da term is formed by simply swapping a few letter-sounds around --- i.e., "coST 'n' PuFFer" instead of "coFF 'n' SPuTTer" --- and describes how you can save gas on a car-trip during fairly good weather when you wouldn't be excessively discomforted by "hoofing it" part of the way. So, rather than expensively travelling to each and every place on your errands-list by noisily chugging all around town in your ancient fuel-swigging auto-bubble with its clunky worn engine that misses and backfires a lot, you instead park at various spots along your travel-route and then wheezingly galumph around to your different "side-destinations" if they're not too far away and you won't have anything bulky/heavy to carry to/from said locales.
A large simple-design day-pack and a comfy pair of jogging-shoes are wise choices if you plan to make a "cost 'n' puffer" road-trip. One or more pullover hoodie-jackets and/or a sun-hat would be wise accessories, as well, if it's gonna be blazingly-bright, chilly, or windy that day.
by QuacksO April 17, 2020
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During an after-school visit with my teenage "horse girl" chum, she had unwisely played afternoon-volleyball with her fellow high-school-girl students at the gym, even though she had a whole trailer-load of hay-bales parked in her family's driveway to unload and put away in the barn. So when we got back to her house and her weary brown eyes first caught sight of said heaped flatbed, she just kinda stood there and stared glumly at the cart with a helpless feeling of major retina fatigue... after all that strenuous sports-exertion that she'd just put out, she rrrreeeeeaaaallllyyyyy didn't feel up to lugging dozens of ponderous weighty hay-bales twenty yards from the wagon to the barn-loft! So we compromised --- I carried the bales from the cart to the barn, and she put them away. She "paid" me for my labors with a warm grateful hug each time I brought a bale to her, and then afterwards she sat wif me on the couch and let me give her a nice long foot-rub.
by QuacksO April 15, 2019
Get the retina fatigue mug.Not to be confused with "ocean vegetation", this is a code-word for marijuana --- i.e., "c" weed, with "c" standing for "cannabis".
It's widely known that many commercial fishermen bring in "something other than fish" during many of their offshore hauls; to both avoid arousing suspicion among the authorities AND secretly convey to their cohorts that they "have the goods", they claim to be hauling "c-weed" as a side-business to their regular Pisces/crustacean-based harvesting.
by QuacksO February 18, 2022
Get the c-weed mug.The level of urgency/importance of that one feels for travelling to and/or conducting business in Peoria, Illinois.
Dunno why dat Decatur dude makes it such a Peoriaty to run most of his errands at just that one city --- there are lots of much-closer cities and sizable towns located all around his area, and they all contain branches of the same businesses and government-offices that he frequents during his visits to Peoria.
by QuacksO October 03, 2017
Get the Peoriaty mug.Tronald Dump was frustrated with Andrés Manuel López Obrador's lack of cooperation regarding paying for construction of The Wall; da obvious mexplanation was dat Mr. Obrador's government perpetually-depleted coffers simply could not afford da astronomical cost of said construction. Well, DUHHHH --- illegal migration to da USA was such a problem PRECISELY BECAUSE Mexico didn't possess da capital to adequately support all of its citizens in da first place!
by QuacksO March 11, 2021
Get the mexplanation mug.Da uproarious act of playfully referring to yer present-company individual by one or more words dat he has just said to ya in yer back-and-forth light-banter-speech, often to jokingly mean dat ya think dat da other person either is presently being silly or is silly-natured overall. For example, if ya are having "huggy-roughhousing" fun wif a pretty girl by folding her legs up, plopping her cute warm rubbery feet against yer chest, gripping her hands to both savor their warm softness and steady yerself, and then leaning forward to press her knees against her chest while smilingly saying, "Squish-ish-ish-ish-squish-squash!", said "folded-up" chick gigglingly retorts, "YOU'RE a 'squish-squash'!"
Another example of conversation-context nicknaming would be if ya eye-twinklingly warbled, "Ding-dong!" to someone inside a building after ya had passed through an electric-eye-equipped door and thus rang an electric bell on yer way in, and da person inside chuckled back, "YOU'RE a 'ding-dong'!" Or if ya and a friend were assembling/servicing something together, and ya said, "Since we'll likely be needing to frequently loosen and tighten this particular fastening, I think we might want to use a wingnut here," yer helper "jumped at da chance" to toss a playful barb yer way by responding, "YOU'RE a wingnut!"
by QuacksO April 26, 2025
Get the conversation-context nicknaming mug.A tongue-in-cheek query that someone asks his buddy when they are engaged in a horridly-boring and/or disagreeable task. Intended to lighten the mood and sympathize with your co-worker about the less-than-pleasant job/situation.
Dude, helping his buddy to sweep up piles of scattered wood-shavings in a warehouse they're tidying up: "Are we having fun yet?"
by QuacksO November 02, 2018
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