Definitions by QuacksO
high triglisserides
A clogging-of-bodily-plumbing abnormality caused by performing too many "trailing up or down da scales" operations during a musical presentation.
Audience members who get blood-pressuringly exasperated from enduring too many "flamboyant flair" keyboard/fretboard shenanigans could also develop high triglisserides, as well as merely da musician's being affected in dat way.
high triglisserides by QuacksO February 2, 2026
downwhisper
Da four types of vocalizing and/or gesticulating behaviors dat townspeople exhibit in their talk among each other when some "big splash" event occurs, in order of intensity from most to least:
Uproar: Everyone excitedly shouting, waving their arms, and demanding either answers/solutions or at least more juicy details.
Downroar: A calmer and more-moderate-noise/action-level reaction, but still persistently seeking resolution/information.
Upwhisper: Even less loud than either da da first "deafenition" or da second one, but still involving a lot of heated/enthusiastic "Pwss-pwss-pwss-pwss!" discussing/opinionating and semi-wild hand-and-head movements.
Downwhisper: Yet another "one major tier lower" than Definition #3 in both da sound-level and physical enthusiasm, possibly because whatever matter is under discussion is either less exciting/controversial or a topic dat everyone knows is supposed to be "kept hush-hush", as opposed to more-G-rated subjects.
Uproar: Everyone excitedly shouting, waving their arms, and demanding either answers/solutions or at least more juicy details.
Downroar: A calmer and more-moderate-noise/action-level reaction, but still persistently seeking resolution/information.
Upwhisper: Even less loud than either da da first "deafenition" or da second one, but still involving a lot of heated/enthusiastic "Pwss-pwss-pwss-pwss!" discussing/opinionating and semi-wild hand-and-head movements.
Downwhisper: Yet another "one major tier lower" than Definition #3 in both da sound-level and physical enthusiasm, possibly because whatever matter is under discussion is either less exciting/controversial or a topic dat everyone knows is supposed to be "kept hush-hush", as opposed to more-G-rated subjects.
downwhisper by QuacksO January 31, 2026
deafenition
Any "read-out-loud" dictionary-entry can easily be turned into a deafenition if ya do indeed "read it sufficiently loud" --- i.e., maybe blast it over a 100-watt megaphone to be absolutely sure dat everyone else in da room hears said Oxford's Abridged entry. Now of course, whether said "audience" can still hear anything else a-f-t-e-r you make said high-decibel presentation is a whole 'nother matter entirely! :P
deafenition by QuacksO January 31, 2026
consession
An allowance/compromise/recognition regarding a meeting or period of activity; it can involve either granting someone an interval of counsel/comfort, or using said get-together to arrange/provide an easement or grant of time/resources to said other person.
Tiffany is ordinarily quite "proper 'n' conservative", but she agreed to let me give her a naked whole-body massage and then sleep skin-to-skin wif her overnight if I'd fix her car --- sounds like an awesome consession to me!
consession by QuacksO January 30, 2026
cat-and-mousse game
Refers to a "catch me at it if you can" contest of wits dat pits in-denial chocolate-loving junk-food junkies against health-food hippies who are wanting to (A) prove dat said people are indeed secretly chowing down on said sugary fattening foods, and (B) pressure said cloying caloried comestable indulgers to eat bean sprouts and tofu instead.
Something like da temperance-revival crowd's repeatedly straining for a glimpse of da supposedly-sober King's "puttin' in his time with a private jug", a nutrition-doctor's trying to document da "sugary slippages" committed by one of his clients --- and thus get him to admit dat he "sneaks sweets" sometimes, and therefore needs will-power help --- can be a real "cat-and-mousse game".
cat-and-mousse game by QuacksO January 29, 2026
warrantea
Refers to a "top quality and flavor, or your money back" statement dat's included wif every box of Tetley Original/Classic Blend, British Blend, or Orange Pekoe.
If da infamously-tarrifed aristocrat-brew products shipped to Boston by da British East India Company had come wif a "refund if not satisfactory" pledge from said distributor's suppliers, would said warrantea have covered said comestibles if they hadn't even been prepared and served yet, but had instead merely been dumped into da harbor untasted??
THAT'S not a gun
**That** is a gun!
When da intoxicated 'roo shooters saw Mick Dundee's rifle-wielding "kangaroo vigilante", they frenziedly took off in a blind panic, as if they had no viable weapons of their own to return fire with. And so Mick --- after complimenting da dead kangaroo on its supposed marksmanship ("Good one, Skippy!") --- could have then jokingly told Sue, "That pathetic pea-shooter that that overflowing-bladdered Sidney-based loudmouth was luggin' around?! THAT'S not a gun --- THIS is a gun!", since said noisy Lee-Enfield 303 had been so effective at scaring off said tipsy adult-delinquent and his fellow "slick city cowboys".
THAT'S not a gun by QuacksO January 29, 2026