Tom Elgie's definitions

scroggins

An interjection used to express astonishment.

Scroggins that is awesome!!! -- equivalent to "Wow that is awesome!!!"

by Tom Elgie May 24, 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

c.moore

The c.moore is decscibed as a very rare breed as it is half a humanoid, quater ET and quater hobbit/smegal. The c.moore has big ears that are often used as radars and very bushy curly hair to keep warm.

"look over there!! The C.Moore is there in that hedge!!!

by Tom Elgie May 24, 2006

automobilist

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

"Are you an automobilist?"

by Tom Elgie June 18, 2006

Sneerag

A child's toy, made of the larger bone of a pig's foot and two worsted strings, and worked so as to give a snoring sound.

I used to play with my sneerag, back in the day.

by Tom Elgie June 18, 2006

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