Definitions by Tom Elgie

Wank Pheasant 

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

There is no need to be a wank pheasant!

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!!"

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!!"

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!!"

Jiffy by Tom Elgie October 12, 2016

automobilist

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

"Are you an automobilist?"

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

penny-readings by Tom Elgie June 18, 2006

Kingkisheen 

A person born on Whit Sunday (the seventh sunday after easter), generally considered to be unlucky and fated to slay or be slain...or both; from cingcis, Pentecost.

(i don't know these people, they are just names to express the example for Kingkisheen)

Bob was born on Whit Sunday does that mean that he is a Kingkisheen.
Why yes sir it does.

Kingkisheen by Tom Elgie June 18, 2006