the ability of a mother to hear what her children are up to even when they are very quiet about it and are in the next room.
by Una Malachica February 14, 2008
The Gomboc is a roundish piece of clear synthetic material with gently peaked, organic curves. It looks like a piece of modern art. But if you tip it over, something unusual happens: it rights itself. A three-dimensional object that purely by dint of its geometry had only one possible way to balance upright.(from New York Times, 12/9/07)
He's such a gomboc. No matter what life tossed at him, job loss, divorce, sickness, he kept bouncing back.
by Una Malachica January 27, 2008
College kids like Obama, and so do baractogenerians.
by Una Malachica February 15, 2008
a trick, an easy way out
by Una Malachica March 30, 2008
the practice of diabetics who avoid taking insulin, which can cause weight gain, in order to control their weight. Despite its name, the disorder does not involve purging (Source: New York Times).
by Una Malachica March 02, 2008
He turned over the chairmanship but continued to give counsel--unwanted counsel. He had relinquished the post then immediately linquished it right back.
by Una Malachica May 13, 2008
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said that black turnout in the fall election will encourage the purple-ization of red states.
by Una Malachica May 16, 2008