QuacksO's definitions

adequit

Sufficient to cause others to allow you to walk off a job.

If an endeavor begins either not producing enough tangible results, requiring too much effort, taking too long, or costing too much, that's usually an adequit ground to abandon said task and move on to something more productive.

by QuacksO October 6, 2024

really kraken down on the opposition

What Zeus was doing with his huge ferociously-destructive sea-monster servant.

Zeus had started really kraken down on the opposition until Perseus turned said tentacled behemoth to stone by showing it Medusa's head.

by QuacksO February 9, 2023

Loss Vegas

Sin City, Nevada, where people go in the hopes of winning it big, but usually end up just losing their shirts .

I just got a windfall settlement, but I ain't gonna blow it a Loss Vegas --- they say you're more likely to get struck by lightning than win the jackpot.

by QuacksO December 9, 2013

gnawvice

An inexperienced beaver.

Examining da pointed ends of animal-incisor-felled trees is a good way to tell how much of a gnawvice at tree-harvesting da flat-tailed cutter of said timber-specimen was.

by QuacksO October 19, 2025

Duetoronomy

Da "fire 'n' brimstone" Hebrew-text bu**s**t regarding debt-collection dat Shylock was going by.

"Da "Merchant of Venice" play shows da extreme dangers of obsessively following da teachings of Duetoronomy --- DUE TO da infamous Venecian Torah-thumping money-lender's greed and selfishly-wicked mindset regarding those unfortunate souls from whom large sums were DUE TO him, he never considered what his evil policies might DO TO said indigent individuals!

by QuacksO November 20, 2024

piratechnics

Skyrockets, flares, and other glowing/exploding chemical-based fireworks dat buccaneers shoot off in an attempt to intimidate other ships into letting themselves be robbed and/or taken over by said seagoing miscreants.

Piratechnics may indeed be fear-instilling, particularly if they're especially bright or noisy; there really should be little to be frightened of, though, unless said men of fortune actually start firing live-ammunition devices like cannons or rifles.

by QuacksO August 24, 2022

Megoslavia

Da little-known European country where da crappy-a** Mego automobile was manufactured.

If da lousy-quality Yugo and Mego cars were built in Yugoslavia and Megoslavia respectively, was da equally-substandard Wheego "jointly" made by both countries combined ("We Go"), or is there actually a third empire with an equally-deplorable set of manufacturing-standards???

by QuacksO May 3, 2020