vivauganda's definitions

DIYD/DIYDont

Useful in writing to avoid actually writing a cliche, while using one. Works in writing only, as most such acros.
Doomed if you do/doomed if you don't
can't say DIYDx2, because the 2nd D is different

Well, they get you somehow - DIYD/DIYDont, you know that cliche with doomed in it?

by vivauganda January 19, 2011

polysillybic

A person who habitually favours a long word over a short one.

That polysillybic? Just a long-word factory. Sometimes he can't even get his tongue around the pronunciation!

by vivauganda January 14, 2011

rural myth

A false rumour that entrenched as truth in poor rural-majority countries

In Egypt farmers believe a hot-air balloon that lands on their field brings good luck. They would, wouldn't they - it brings them instant compensation from the balloon owner. It's a contrived rural myth to disguise their greed. So for rural myth read rural math, you know, as opposed to urban math.

by vivauganda January 14, 2011

deep pockets/short hands

A miserly billionaire, especially when it comes to charity

Sure he's loaded, but he, he's just charity-stays-in-the-pocket kind (or unkind!): deep pockets/short hands

by vivauganda December 23, 2010

magnanimouse

Someone whose magnanimity stops outside his pocket.

He made a big speech at the fund-raiser and then hid like a magnanimouse when they came around with the hat.

by vivauganda December 22, 2010

disgussion

An ostensibly objective discussion whose soon-revealed purpose is to undermine someone/someone's genuine efforts, with invectives galore.

The professors went after their peer's paper with words blazing. It was a disgussion fest - disgusting and concussion-inducing.

by vivauganda December 22, 2010

10/7

10 hours per day, 7 days a week.

Useful for an invisible job - like writing or e-selling from home.

Most people get annoyed when I tell them I may be a writer and working from home but I work damn hard - like 10/7.

by vivauganda December 22, 2010