The “Duke of Marlborough Effect” was mentioned by Richard Dawkins to refer to the increase in masculine libido that results from experiencing a victory, whether directly or vicariously. This was so-named from an entry in the Duchess of Marlborough’s diary, “His Grace returned from the wars today and pleasured me twice in his top-boots.” Male athletes tend to experience elevated testosterone levels before a contest; those who win tend to maintain afterwards those elevated testosterone levels, but the testosterone levels of losers drops dramatically afterwards.
There will likely be a lot of canoodling in Old Boston now that the Red Sox have won the Series due to the Duke of Marlborough effect and the subsequent release of proper Bostonian inhibitions.
by eViL pOp TaRt January 05, 2009
Get the Duke of Marlborough effectmug. This is a layer of fabric added to thin halters or bikini tops in order to make its underlying features less evident.
I once bought a bikini top that had really thin fabric; Mom insisted that I sew in a modesty layer underneath or even wear a bra.
by eViL pOp TaRt June 20, 2006
Get the modesty layermug. Ostentatious piety. An open display of religious sentiment primarily for the consumption or edification of others.
Mary had three saints' statues and habitually did flying novenas; she was heavily into bondieuserie.
by eViL pOp TaRt May 10, 2010
Get the bondieuseriemug. The Paris Hilton syndrome refers to the gleeful pleasure that some people get when some essentially harmless prominent or attractive person experiences humiliation; as was the case when the Hilton heiress and model Paris Hilton was outed in the widely-disseminated and infamous sex video. It is essentially one form of schadenfreude.
Meg and Candy enjoyed the fall from grace of pop princess Britney Spears; another manifestation of the Paris Hilton syndrome.
by eViL pOp TaRt July 18, 2006
Get the Paris Hilton syndromemug. This is a kind of canvas hat that guys wear with the brim pulled down. It is so-called because the wearer knows it looks bad; yet wears it anyway as an expression of nonchalant contempt for convention. In effect, sartorially declaring "Kiss my ass!"
My boyfriend dresses really nice; but occasionally spoils the effect by wearing what guys call his kiss my ass hat.
by evil pop tart December 24, 2009
Get the kiss my ass hatmug. This is a variant of the standard Mardi Gras bead flash, in which the timid soul flashes her bra or bikini top for Mardi Gras beads.
My sister Heather was cowed by the nuns; consequently, she was only up to a Catholic girl Mardi Gras bead flash.
by eViL pOp TaRt February 27, 2006
Get the Catholic girl Mardi Gras bead flashmug. Obfun is short for "obligatory fun." It refers to the ice-breaking activities that are injected into all-day seminars oe conferences either to make it more interesting to the participants, to remove any sense of dignity that might remain, and to lend variety to the activities.
The all-day conference consisted of six hours of lectures, and three occasions of obfun in which we lowered Hula-Hoops over each other, wore silly masks, and pretended that we were a herd of lemmings migrating for survival.
by eViL pOp TaRt February 20, 2008
Get the obfunmug.