QuacksO's definitions

pre-cough swallow

Refers to where you feel a cough coming on while your mouth is full of food/drink, and so you hastily down the entire mouthful so that your mouth and throat will be free to expel the cough "cleanly", rather than there being a humongous "geyser" of messy stuff to go flying all over the place and disgustingly splattering everything within a several-foot radius.

I'd just swallowed a big bite of spicy-hot chili and was in the process of washing it down with a swig of cold milk when I felt an overpowering urge to choke, so I did a hasty pre-cough swallow to avoid a spluttery shower of tomato-tinted milk all over my new tablecloth.

by QuacksO August 1, 2018

optomistic

A person who thinks dat a visit to da eye doctor will improve his life overall.

Being able to see better can indeed make your day-to-day existence a lot more pleasant, so perhaps it actually is **not** being excessively optomistic to think dat getting new glasses may make you significantly happier and more relaxed.

by QuacksO April 27, 2024

capabillity

How good/effective you are at expediently/accurately totaling up how much your customer owes you.

I used to moderately detest math-classes in grade school, but now I am indeed glad that I was made to study and learn it so well, since it surely helps my budgetting-capabillity while seeking out the best values in the supermarket or department store, and for speedily calculating sums in my head when checking a printed invoice for possible errors.

by QuacksO July 22, 2019

iconomy

Da financial status of fancy-schmancy "click here" computer-symbols.

Da current iconomy is quite robust, since people love having lots of new cool-looking cursor-targets every year.

by QuacksO August 22, 2025

Machiavorkianism

The concept of becoming so emotionally/morally detached that you feel comfortable with assisting someone to commit suicide.

I'm kinda "on the fence" about assisted suicides for terminally-ill patients, but I do acknowledge that there would definitely be some grave (pun not intended, but certainly appropriate) Machiavorkianism risks involved.

by QuacksO May 15, 2018

errowneous statement

A false claim dat you hadda paddle your boat rather than just using your motor.

Given how unreliable da infamous "Sears Rowback" outboard putt-putt was, I seriously doubt dat there were really all dat many errowneous statements made by said motors' owners.

by QuacksO December 8, 2020

squawkometer

Any noisy alarm-device that produces an ear-piercing and/or highly-irritating noise every time it detects anything amiss. Can also loosely refer to the hair-trigger wrongness-detecting consciousness of an overly-zealous/sensitive person who vociferously protests anything and everything that he deems inappropriate, unfair, dangerous, unsanitary, etc.

Howard Hughes was infamous for his irrational behavior and assorted phobias; one of his most notorious disorders was his overactive squawkometer regarding germs.

by QuacksO January 1, 2019