pentozali's definitions

furp

A cat's hairball. From "fur" + "urp" (the sound of upchucking).

What a mess---I have to clean the furp on the rug!

by pentozali January 19, 2008

tsitter

Yiddish word that means "to shake", "jiggle", "tremble".

Being so close to the window makes me very nervous---I don't like the way that construction crane is tsittering back and forth. It looks like it's going to crash into the window any minute!

by pentozali January 23, 2008

Ghanarrhea

Scams originating in West African countries usually involving fraud or identity theft via the Internet, due to corruption on the part of government officials in those countries and a general acquiescence on the part of the same officials to do anything about said scams.

One of the worst things that can happen on the Internet involves what I call Ghanarrhea. The symptoms include an abnormal flow of funds from your pocket into the pockets of these email scammers in Ghana.

by pentozali January 25, 2008

blay

BLue + grAY. Looks nice on a shirt when you match it up with black, blue, or gray pants.

I think this blay shirt will look good with those black pants for the concert, don't you think?

by pentozali January 28, 2008

Timices

"Learned" plural of Timex. Modeled after "index-indices", "vortex-vortices", etc. Pronounced "TIME-ih-seez".

I have a lotta Timices. Never had any probs wit' dem.

by pentozali January 29, 2008

Runasimi

The campesino name for Quechua, the language of the direct descendents of the Inca in Andean countries (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia). In Ecuador, the language is called Runashimi. Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia have the highest amount of diversion in the dialects of Quechua. The name "runasimi" comes from "runa"=people and "simi"=language (or tongue), literally "language of the people". Runasimi is an agglutinative language, functioning somewhat like Turkic languages, and is a very beautiful, melodious language, well suited to music and poetry.

Runasimi is a really nice language. I wish that more people could publish grammar books on it.

by pentozali October 30, 2007

campesino

One of the names preferred by people in the Andean countries who speak Runasimi or Aymara. The name "cholo" is also used but seems to cause some confusion if it is directed at a speaker of Aymara. One of the other names, "indio", is a derogatory epithet and should NEVER be used when speaking to a Quechua- or Aymara-speaking person.

Carlos is a campesino, from the altiplano in Bolivia. He speaks both Quechua and Aymara.

by pentozali October 30, 2007