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My hovercraft is full of eels

A quote from a Monty Python sketch. Used whenever someone is trying to speak a foreign language to you, but they're either doing it wrong or you don't understand.

A Hungarian tourist goes into a cigar shop looking for a box of matches, but doesn't speak English, so he brings a badly-written phrasebook with him. When he tries to ask for matches, he ends up saying "My hovercraft is full of eels?"
Tourist: "Ah, ah, my hovercraft is full of eels?"
Clerk: "What?"
Tourist points to matches: "My hovercraft is full of eels!"
Clerk picks up matches: "Oh, this?"
Tourist: "Yes!"
by Ignacius Bledell October 21, 2010
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conger eels and rice

1. a meal that londoners eat on holiday in thailand
2. a bush mouthpiece
1. "oi, bring us a nuvva plate of that conga eels 'n' rice"
2. "and now, speaking from the white house: conger eels and rice"
by theWestHamfan December 4, 2003
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4 eels

The amount of eels you need to assure someone that something is not false.
Randy: Dude, I just did a backflip!
Travis: Yeah right, I don't believe you.
Randy: No! 4 eels!
Travis: Oh, sweet, good job dude.
by Jeremy Radd June 24, 2008
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Guinness Eels

The name given to live born young that result from a night of drinking alot of Guinness.

The young are often born in rivers and semi private places near bars and sailors.

Singular: Guiness eel if only one intact log is present.
"You lads down stream swimming, watch out! Guinness eels headed your way!"
by LittleTed August 6, 2017
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mustard eels

when your crapping long yellowish eel like turds.
after eating a slice of pumpkin pie and yams for thanksgiving Kip had a bad case of the mustard eels!
by jorymo November 15, 2009
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Vaginal Eels

A Sexually transmitted disease in which mold ferments on your Fallopian tube and wriggles out into your uterus. It travels in waves, causing defected babies. In males it results in a clogged urethra, preventing ejaculation and causing excruciating urination.
One time, I spilled some mold dust on my dick and fucked a girl. She woke up with vaginal eels. I have urethrian eels as well.
by Erriot13 June 21, 2014
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Can't see the hovercraft for the eels

Being unable to see the bigger picture. Focusing on the eels without dealing with the larger hovercraft
by markymoo72 May 12, 2019
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