Urban Dictionary: Definitions by pentozali

Ming gremlin

The little gremlin that makes objects fall and break when you're not looking---like your expensive Ming Dynasty vase.

I see that the Ming gremlin was at work again. My whole CD collection is on the floor. Dammit!

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Any brass wind instrument, because of the appearance of the tubing.

Listen to that great plumbing in the band! I haven't heard anything like that in a long time!

plumbing by pentozali April 13, 2006

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Suffix used to intensify a word's meaning. Modeled after names of countries, e.g. Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc.

That store is Zilchistan. They only have cellular phones there. Forget about finding any good, old-fashioned phones!

stan by pentozali April 13, 2006

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The colorful plastic lace one uses to make lanyards, key fobs, handcrafted wallets and purses, etc.

Is that counselor in some kind of a knotwork contest? Look at all those complicated knots in that boondoggle whistle lanyard he's wearing!

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To kill; to exterminate or get rid of someone or something completely. From "oBLITerate".

Let's blit those rats! Get the rodenticide!

blit by pentozali April 13, 2006

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The ornate mosaic tile work one finds in Moroccan restaurants and in Morocco itself.

Beautiful! It must have cost a fortune to put up those zelliges in this restaurant!

zelliges by pentozali April 13, 2006

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An imitation of the "stuttering" hand motions and clattering sounds heard when one makes an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve a falling object.

Hey, di-di-dit! Look at that spaz over there trying to pick up that pen!

di-di-dit by pentozali April 12, 2006

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