anycon's definitions

grade inflation

(n.) What goes on at Harvard. See Harvard.

A Harvard University report last spring complained of grade inflation that makes it easier to get high grades. Now the academic dean, Susan Pedersen, has released data showing that 49 percent of undergraduate grades were A's in 2001, up considerably from 23 percent in 1986.

by anycon October 10, 2005

stay-at-home Charlie

A common phrase in Hertfordshire, England, this jocular compound is virtually synonymous with homeboy, though with perhaps more couth-potatoey connotations.

I'm too much of a stay-at-home Charlie to go travelling in my gap year.

by anycon April 4, 2005

fuckwittage

A word that acts as a means of measuring the degree to which a person is (or is perceived to be) a fuckwit.

"Serious fuckwittage" Bridget said loudly.
"Yeah" agreed Shaz, "that guy's buried himself in his own fuckwittage."

by anycon June 23, 2003

n00bish

Preferred adjectival form of 'n00b'.

That n00b over there is n00bish.

by anycon September 28, 2004

bligh

(int.) A speech-impedimentary way of saying bye. Spelt 'bligh' in recognition of Captain Bligh, famously mutinied mariner.

'Bligh!' said Michael Howard, forgotten but not gone.

by anycon December 28, 2005

shiïte

(n.) A learned way of saying shit. Contraction of the exclamatory 'Shiïte Muslims!', which may be used by somebody who objects to the tenets of Islam or actions performed in their name. Now corrupted simply to 'shiïte', this word serves on occasion as a witty alternative to the chavish shit.

Should be pronounced 'SHEE-ite'.

'Shiïte not another bombing in Lebanon!'

by anycon January 10, 2007

fanx

(int.) A quicker way of typing 'thanks' (meaning 'thank you') that may originate in the f-dropping pronunciation of Cockneys and the like.

Fanx for de linky.

by anycon September 18, 2005