The Fat Welshman's definitions

Hootenanny

Original meaning is a thingamajig in US slang and it can be used to conceal the meaning from children, strangers etc. Usually tools. In the later 20th Century it came to mean an informal party with music.

Don dropped his spanner under the hood. Dang! Pass me my hootenanny.

by The Fat Welshman August 5, 2021

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

Pizzanado

Pizzanado - à lover of pizza, pizza + afficianado

Ros is a pizzanado

by The Fat Welshman April 16, 2020

frogshooting suit

The sort of shiny suit a conman might wear hence the allusion. Slick and dodgy. Slimy.

“I didn’t like that guy at all. He wanted his mitts on my money.”
“Yeah - he was wearing a frogshooting suit. A dead giveaway really.”

by The Fat Welshman May 8, 2022

Analiloquy

Talking out of your arse or describing someone doing just that.

Boy did you see Trump last night? More analiloquy. That guy has no shame!

by The Fat Welshman December 4, 2020

Trumposis

The state of being like President Trump. The analogy is halitosis - bad breath.

Did you see.Chuck in the bar last night? He really had bad trumposis.

by The Fat Welshman December 4, 2020

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