Tom Elgie's definitions

Wank Pheasant

An affluent and difficult client.
Someone that puts forward a thoroughly unreasonable proposition.

There is no need to be a wank pheasant!

by Tom Elgie October 12, 2016

Jiffy

A jiffy is a unit of time: 0.0000000000033357 seconds or (3.3357x10^-11) or (3.3357 times 10 to the power of minus 11).

So named for the length it takes for light to travel 1 centimetre in a vaccum.

"I will be back in a jiffy!!"

by Tom Elgie October 12, 2016

Jiffy

A jiffy is a unit of time: 0.0000000000033357 seconds or (3.3357x10^-11) or (3.3357 times 10 to the power of minus 11).

So named for the length it takes for light to travel 1 centimetre in a vaccum.

"I will be back in a jiffy!!"

by Tom Elgie October 12, 2016

Jiffy

A jiffy is a unit of time: 0.0000000000033357 seconds or (3.3357x10^-11) or (3.3357 times 10 to the power of minus 11).

So named for the length it takes for light to travel 1 centimetre in a vaccum.

"I will be back in a jiffy!!"

by Tom Elgie October 12, 2016

automobilist

One who uses or drives an automobile; (c.1900).

"Are you an automobilist?"

by Tom Elgie June 18, 2006

penny-readings

Entertainments consisting of readings, with music, &c. the price of admission being a penny. they commenced in 1859, and were formerly common, but are now less heard of.

Shall we go the the penny-readings today

by Tom Elgie June 18, 2006

Ornature

1. Decoration

2. A public holiday occuring generall towards the end of May, and set apart for the decoration of the graves of those who fell in the American Civil War.

1. What beautiful ornature that is displayed.

2. Ornature this year will be the best time to remember those who died in the civil war

by Tom Elgie June 18, 2006