andy's definitions

Ent

Tree-creature in Lord of the Rings. Ents are tall, slow and patient creatures which live in the forest of Fangorn and exist to protect the trees from harm. Related to Entwife. Make for very cool special effects in films, especially when it comes to trashing Isengard.

That tree's got a face - it looks just like an ent.

You need the patience of an ent to put up with this degree course.

Tony Blair's revived the road building programme! I hope an ent squashes him.

by Andy April 17, 2004

uze

Short for "usual." Indicates a "ho-hum" attitude and a tonal sense of comfort with the person with whom you are speaking.

"What's going on in your life?"
"You know, the uze."

by Andy June 1, 2004

Halvorc

A merchant, met by Lone Wolf in Joe Dever's Lone Wolf 2: Fire on the Water. He is one of the passengers on the coach from Ragadorn to Durenor, which Lone Wolf is forced to flee in Gorn Cove.

In the Legends novels, Halvorc is slain in the fighting which followed Lone Wolf's battle with an assassin.

Sounds like "half-orc", but confusingly, the character is fully human (though a little on the pudgy side). Anyway, there's no Orcs in the Lone Wolf universe.

by Andy April 25, 2004

protectotard

A person who tries to prevent or protect other people, i.e. children, from the alledged coruptiveness and corrosiveness of violent videogames and computer games.

The inventors of the word "killographic" are a bunch of protectotards.

by Andy December 11, 2003

master-signifier

In Lacanian theory, a signifier which stops the slippage of the signified under the signifier and fixes meaning, thereby forming a stable symbolic order. It is a particular signifier with no signified of its own, which stands in for the "fullness" of the meaning of the symbolic system itself. However, since contingency and lack are taken to be primary in Lacanian theory, it is necessarily arbitrary and is unable to guarantee its own primacy except through arbitrary and ungrounded violence. It is always haunted by the return of the Real.

In my view, this concept is useful but its basis is mistaken. What is repressed is active desire, held down for fear of punishment, and not some kind of ontological void. Lacan is wrong to pose his problems on such a metaphysical level.

by Andy May 7, 2004

cad

Regency-era swear word, meaning a man who doesn't treat women proper.

Regency woman: Forsooth, Eminem, for thou art such a cad!

Eminem: Yo, shut yo mouth yo beeatch, and suck mah cock, and den yall fuck off back to yo own time zone

Regency woman: (faints at hearing so much bad language)

by Andy April 20, 2004

Chode

A chode is a penis which is wider than it is long
Ave seen 1

andy m couldn't fit his chode up my arse or in my mouth and when i tried to toss him off i couldn't get a grip. So basicly he carn't get any pleasure

by Andy June 25, 2004