QuacksO's definitions

achy quaky legs

What Billy Ray Cyrus would have after a long period of gathering returnable beverage containers on a hot day. Good luck gettin' any sleep that night.

"...So do not tell my legs, my achy quaky legs, to take one more step till they get a rest --- whooooohhh!"

by QuacksO August 8, 2018

braking the law

Illegally slowing down.

Slapping a "Hit me --- I need the insurance money" sticker on your bumper may indeed be an uproarious action that's protected under the First Amendment, but it also might cause the fuzz to suspiciously eagle-eyeball your speed-changes to see if you're braking the law.

by QuacksO April 30, 2025

affrillyation

A social connection with people who wear fancy decorative clothing.

I'm such a klutz dat I try to avoid closely associating with folks who are all dressed up; said "near 'n' dear" affrillyation would risk my accidentally damaging and/or soiling da lacy duds dat said individuals are wearing.

by QuacksO November 16, 2022

I'd eat my bread without butter!

What you growlingly exclaim when told that someone did something uncaring/deceitful because "he knows which side his bread is buttered on"; what you mean, of course, is that you would rather risk displeasing the powers-that-be than harm someone else.

Back when I was a frail and tender-minded nine-year-old, my bi**hy second-grade teacher violently shook me and gave me a long severe verbal working-over merely because I had "mouthed right back" at a "spoiled-rich-kid" youngster who had been outrageously rude to me over an extremely trivial matter. At da time I was at a total loss to know why said irritable teacher had been so ferociously defensive of Little Miss Bossy 'n' Obnoxious; it wasn't until decades later that I finally learned that said bratty pint-sized colleen was da daughter of a "somebody" in town, and so I realized dat da teacher had "known which side her bread was buttered on", and therefore when said whiny miscreant went "bawlin' 'n' blubberin'" to da teacher about it, she felt compelled to blame ME for da verbal dust-up instead of just telling dat willful child to "shut up and grow up", as she should have. As I tell my friends when relating the story nowadays, though, "I'd eat my bread without butter!" before I ever unfairly blamed an innocent person like that. Reminds me of da "Little House On The Prairie" episode about da broken music box.

by QuacksO March 18, 2019

floppy-flappies

Not to be confused wif "flip-flops" --- i.e., sandals dat just have a sole and strap/pocket for yer toes --- this term refers to a pair of almost-totally-worn-out-and-loose-fitting shoes dat you lounge around in while you're just in da house or yard.

Cool chick, showing up on a favorite male friend's porch: Hey, Dude; I'm feeling a little bored and lonesome --- could you go for a stroll wif me down to da lake and back?
Hot hunk: Sure thing, Sweet Cheex --- just lemme change outta my floppy-flappies here, and I'll be right wif ya!

by QuacksO August 24, 2022

exsponged record

A "scrubbed -clean" file of one's past mooching activity.

If a new "friend" asks you for money but also claims to have no prior debts, you should wonder if he might merely have obtained an exsponged record.

by QuacksO April 2, 2025

Swahealey

"Mechanic-speak" mumbo-jumbo technical jargon used when discussing specs/repairs of vintage roadsters and sports cars. It's such a complicated and seemingly-unintelligible speech-pattern that it might as well be a foreign language to a non-mechanical-knowledgeable listener.

In "Back To The Future, Part 2", Marty protestingly says, "English, Doc!" when said wild-haired scientist is worriedly reciting his babbling Swahealey about how the DeLorean had been mis-used by Biff Tanned to majorly mess up the entire space-time continuum.

by QuacksO February 2, 2020