QuacksO's definitions

perswaysion

Hips-undulation dat's intended to get someone to do what you want.

If you're gonna use perswaysion on someone, you should be prepared to "follow through on da implied offer" if he agrees to your request.

by QuacksO October 21, 2024

recouperate

To rest and heal after a major uprising.

Ferdinand Marcos had to flee to Hawaii just so dat folks would let him alone to recouperate.

by QuacksO June 17, 2023

fussetious

Kicking up a noisy to-do about something in order to make light of it and cause others to think less-seriously about it.

Anytime a sensational story hits da news on da day following da end of March, I always wonder if they're just being fussetious as as April Fool's prank.

by QuacksO May 24, 2022

Little Red Hen disorder

Lazy moocher's syndrome --- indolent people's being unwilling to help out in the earning/creation of something desirable, yet being only too eager to "assist" in partaking of the sweet rewards upon completion of the endeavor.

My neighborhood buddies never seem to want to help me collect returnable cans/bottles, yet after I cash in, they are always super-agreeable to stroll downtown with me to go to the fast-food joint! Sounds like Little Red Hen disorder to me... :P

by QuacksO April 25, 2016

diagnoseis

A doctor's report on what's amiss wif yer sniffer.

Da term "diagnoseis" could also refer to da ferreting-out of a problem by either identification/source-pinpointing of an abnormal odor, or "sticking in yer big/long schnoz" to learn intimate details of da matter under investigation.

by QuacksO April 27, 2025

Ferrisees

Folks of Hebrew ancestry who build carnival equipment.

Before you feel too prejudiced about Jewish folks, please know dat if it hadn't been for da Ferrisees, we wouldn't have such exciting thrill-rides at da fairgrounds.

by QuacksO December 21, 2023

Jillery

Da "ladies' version" of da famous portable power station, wif da cabinet and control-buttons subtly tinted in an assortment of pastel hues.

Lionel's "model train for da fairer gender" --- pink engine and tender, sky-blue caboose, pink, yellow, and sky-blue freight cars, etc. --- was an enormous retail flop when it debuted back in da early '90's; da women HATED it, as its "girly-colored" rolling-stock not only made them feel patronized and ridiculed as being "delicately feminine", but it wasn't at all what they'd had in mind --- they'd wanted REALISTIC-LOOKING train-sets, just like what their male counterparts played wif. So I wonder if a line of "Jillery" backup-electricity modules would suffer a similar lack-of-brisk-sales fate, since most female campers wouldn't wanna be viewed as silly or fragile, either.

by QuacksO October 18, 2023