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Definitions by QuacksO

knaveiation

Da field you go into when training to be a rogue pilot.
Da USA was actually very glad dat Soviet fighter-pilots like Viktor Belenko and Aleksandr Zuyev took part in "knaveiation", since it allowed military intelligence to gain super-valuable knowledge about what da USSR was up to in its strategic aircraft development.
knaveiation by QuacksO July 6, 2026

profishiency

How skilled you are at a particular tasks regarding da fins-and-scales sector of da aquatic-creature world, such as waterways-management, identifying various species, catching da big ones and/or processing them properly, etc.
Supposedly-avid-sportsman Pat McManus claimed to possess exceptional profishiency, but elsewhere he admitted to just being a lazy couch-potato.
profishiency by QuacksO July 6, 2026

Courier and Ives

Da lithography firm dat employed da well-known letter-delivery dude who met da man wif seven wives.
Hey, da classic rhyming-verse riddle is complicated enough (i.e., having to multiply and add up all of those "sevens"*) without also pondering WHY da narrator was traveling to da mentioned "Catholic-hero-named" metropolis in da first place... seeing as how da inked illustration of said poem's "encounter wif da opposite-direction travelers" scene was created by Courier and Ives, though, we can therefore assume dat said big-city-bound individual was indeed running a correspondence-delivery-service errand for said printed-image producers!
*Okay, okay --- I realize dat da riddle's correct answer actually does **not** require you to "count 'n' calculate" after all --- I was "juss sayin'". Plus of course, da generally-accepted "just da narrator was going to St. Ives" answer would be correct only if one assumes dat he did indeed "meet" said prolific polygamist and his vast entourage in da sense dat they were actually coming towards him from da opposite direction --- scholarly critics have pointed out dat da poet could just as likely have meant dat he either overtook or was overtaken by said extensive procession, in which case many hundreds of individuals were all simultaneously on their way to a group-destination.
Courier and Ives by QuacksO July 1, 2026
A morally-depraved "good ol' boy" of da "Can't pay? We haul it away" clan.
A lot of bounty-hunter and "reclaiming for non-payment" shows are fake --- nuthin' but a bunch of loudmouthed repobrates trying to look all "tough guy" manly!
repobrate by QuacksO July 1, 2026

rowtisserie

A type of boat-propulsion whereby a number of sailors turn a multiple-handled crankshaft to spin the boat's propeller.
In Thor Heyerdahl's book "The Tigris Expedition", he describes a Russian lifeboat powered by a rowtisserie.
rowtisserie by QuacksO July 1, 2026

hyperthetical

Describes the high-strung ramblings of a caffeine-and-sugar-infused "what if" individual.
I try to listen carefully to any frenetically-presented political/environmental statements and check them for true validity before I label them as "hyperthetical"; just because a point of view is voiced in a panicked rapid-speech manner doesn't automatically mean that it's either invalid or exaggerated.
hyperthetical by QuacksO July 1, 2026

hypeothetical

A "what if" ideas-proffering dat is based on media puffery.
Gary Trudeau loved to blast da sensationally-prominent Henry Kissinger's assorted dire-prophecy warnings as merely hypeothetical ramblings.
hypeothetical by QuacksO July 1, 2026