potemkin bookshelf

Potemkin bookshelf: someone's bookshelf filled with books they've never read.

Books put on display only for the sake of display or some sort of vicarious status seeking.

Did you see that fake intellectuals bookshelf? He doesn't even have an idea of what's in those books on his shelf.

Did you see that fake intellectuals bookshelf? He doesn't even have an idea of what's in those books on his potemkin bookshelf.

Derived from Potemkin village: a village that is just a facade. Just for show. Enter any door and it turns out to be hollow. Totalitarians and dictator types tend to build these in order to impress their oppressed masses or convince the outside that they are a salubrious nation when they are not.

by Shawlatan July 7, 2022

boobish

To be crazy, and wild. To not care what people think in the moment and act on thought.

The other day Paris when boobish while at that party.

by adfkjsklajkldf May 17, 2007

bookshelf

A rediculously large rear wing on a car.

Person #1: Look at all the stickers on that bookshelf.
Person #2: Three different tire companies.

by Rupan March 3, 2007

Boofish

Having the characteristic of being disconnected from the rest of the world mentally. ADDingness.

While his eyes were open and staring at the board, all he saw were flying marshmallows.

by Bobo September 3, 2003

muffin buffin' bookshelf

A series of mental images a girl will use to pleasure herself in the shower. This can be compared to the masculine term: Spank Bank.

Girl 1: "Oh damn girl did you see Robert Downy Jr. in Iron man?"
Girl 2: "Yeah, I'm putting that on my muffin buffin' bookshelf "

by BertGregor June 12, 2008

Boogish

There is only one, original, someone who behaves as such

Jill you are behaving like such a boogish

by CComp500 December 5, 2017

boolish

Beyond foolish.

(origin: Dan Bergstein - Blogging Eclipse, Part 23, Line-Chunk 26-ish. And even if you heard the word before, Dan Bergstein invented it).

"It's beyond foolish. It's boolish."
"You're boolish."
"Yo momma is boolish."
"Cracker-jack, makka mak, this cheddah-chis is out of this glue bottle. Boolish."

by Marry_Me_Dan_Bergstein!! May 3, 2010