Definitions by QuacksO
Paris Yaris
Riding around in a Paris Yaris may not be very dignified or glorious, but it still gets you from Point A to Point B with little fuss, and costs tons less than a chauffeured limousine.
Paris Yaris by QuacksO April 30, 2019
text-composition butler
A "gentleman's gentleman" who's mainly tasked with proofreading his fumble-fingered master's hastily-composed missives, essays, and other literary creations, pointing out and/or correcting all the errors, and then either passing the resulting "perfected" paperwork back to his boss, or sending said correspondence on its way to it intended recipients.
As clever and talented as Jeeves was, it's entirely probable that he could have also served the dim-witted Bertie Wooster in the role of text-composition butler; perhaps he might instead have suavely suggested that, "You might want to consider a modern word-processor, Sir... it will underline spelling and grammar errors for you, so that you can correct them immediately as you go along."
text-composition butler by QuacksO April 29, 2019
roadside untwisting-stroll
Refers to a fairly-short trek dat you take along da gravel shoulder of da highway by your house while dragging a long and somewhat-twisted/kinked length of rope, wire, tubing, etc behind you; da purpose is to gently/evenly extend said cord back out and allow da"free" or "trailing" end to rotate freely and thus unwind/remove/relax any coils and other unwanted tensioning. After you have walked an appropriate distance to adequately even everything out, you then begin carefully coiling your cord over your arm while continuing to galumph along, so dat da other end of da cord will still be free to rotate, and thus your winding-motion will not create additional twisting of da cord as you reel it in.
I occasionally get an odd look or two from passing motorists while performing a roadside untwisting-stroll after using a garden-hose or extension-cord, but I have yet to have anyone actually ask me about it... I guess most folks understand dat "you gotta do what you gotta do" in a case like this, and dey figger dat "if it gets da job done, more power to ya".
roadside untwisting-stroll by QuacksO April 29, 2019
cygneture
An inky webbed-foot print made by the young Louie Trumpeter or The Ugly Duckling when rubber-stamping his "John Hancock" onto an important document. Can also loosely refer to the line of cute little footprints left by a baby swan as he waddles along the shore.
In "Corny Concerto", The Ugly Duckling encounters two separate "unique codes/representations of oneself" situations --- first, the rough raucous "QUAACCKKK, QUAACCKKK!" sound of his "audible signature" gratingly and obviously differentiates him from Mama Swan's "truly biological" trio's melodically-trilling cygnetures, and then the furiously-outraged Mama Swan leaves her own "signature" on The Ugly Duckling's behind when she tempestuously bunts him away off back up the stream.
silhouewet
An "as seen through the steam-fogged wall of a shower stall" shadow of one or more nudies engaged either in the process of cleansing, or --- in the case of more than one person showering together --- reproducing themselves.
Observing a person's silhouewet can indeed be nice, but often you have a major letdown when you actually see what da birthday-suited showerer looks like in real life.
silhouewet by QuacksO April 28, 2019
ospray
The dense shower of water-droplets made by a large bird-of-prey when it swoops down to the surface of a lake or river to grab a fish.