The Fat Welshman's definitions

smallprintosis

A rare, usually nasty, obscure medical condition about which little is known. So-called because the entry in large textbooks like Harrison’s is in small print at the bottom of the page. Typically the entry says that MRI scanning may be useful in diagnosis and steroids in treatment.
See also fascinoma.

The doctor realised that he was going to have to explain to Kelly’s parents that she was suffering from a smallprintosis.

by The Fat Welshman November 9, 2023

tarpophilia

A perversion or paraphilia involving tarpaulin fabric. Facetiously someone who borrows tarpaulins and never returns them.

I never saw that tarp again.

No that girl is a real tarpophiliac!

by The Fat Welshman November 15, 2022

cambimoron

An idiotic Oxbridge UK politician who studied at Cambridge rather than Oxford

If Ken Clarke wasn’t so sharp he’d be a good example of a Cambimoron.

by The Fat Welshman November 15, 2022

teddymating

An error for meditating, slightly rustic.

Sorry’ bout that I were teddymating.

by The Fat Welshman August 29, 2022

farfrae

A Scot living on the English south coast as refugee from miserable unemployment typically but not exclusively Glaswegian.
From Donald Farfrae the emigrant Scot in Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge.”

His name is a play on words cos he’s far frae hame.

Did you see them farfrae types in the back of the pub with that joint?

by The Fat Welshman August 27, 2022

african tomato

A euphemism for a cannabis plant usually single growing in a pot for personal consumption.

Get that African tomato behind the shed - the Bill are down the street!

by The Fat Welshman August 22, 2022

taking the gap

Slang from the guerrilla war in Zimbabwe for white Rhodesians who left for South Africa. Also a euphemism for dying.

You know that bank robber shot by the police?
Yeah?
He’s taking the gap.

by The Fat Welshman August 18, 2022