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Your Mother was a Hamster and your Father Smelled of Elderberries

This is the greatest insult ever uttered in the history of mankind. It has been said that if a individual says this to another, they will be succumbed to the overwhelming Dankness they have experienced. Their bones will start to get weak, they will drop to their knees and beg for mercy. BUT! They will will be no forgiveness for those whose mother is a hamster and their father smells of elderberries! They will be forced to eat the unholy Lima Soy as punishment for their grave sin.
Your Mother was a Hamster and your Father smelled of Elderberries, enough said

Playing the world's saddest song on the world's smallest violin 

A sarcastic saying used when a person tells another person of something mildly unfortunate that has happened to them, sometimes exaggerated in order to gain sympathy. It implies that the person speaking of their misfortune expects someone to come in playing the saddest song in the world on the worlds smallest violin to correspond with the apparent tradgedy of the situation. Sometimes the person saying this will mime playing a small violin, or try and imitate the sound of a violin.
Jade: Hello, how are you?
Laurel: I just stepped in dog poop and my new shoes got ruined and my feet smell like dog poop, and-
Jade: -Shh... hear that? i'm playing the world's saddest song on the world's smallest violin (mimes playing small violin)
The term for baby fallen from the popular video game Destiny 2 by Bungie.
Person 1: Did you see the season 14 trailer?
Person 2: Yeah the Smallen are super adorable!
Smallen by QwertyBored May 5, 2021
(past tense) (adverb) 1. to form a mental image with devious intent, 2. to achieve a result by taking the quickest and most impulsive path rather than the most logical and deliberate one.
Guy -

"It took a lot of spalling but I finally figured out how to rob the place."

Guy -

"So I glimped the kneecaps off the youngfella 'coz that's just the way I spalled it."
Spalled by Hawky1 July 6, 2011

Smallenfreuden 

Where Visa takes joy from seeing small businesses suffer from cashing in on the high credit card transaction fees compared to using debit. Eerily similar to the German word Schadenfreude, which is to is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
I'm going to smallenfreuden that business so hard.
Smallenfreuden by AverageJoe79 June 21, 2013

The Smalley effect 

When your podcast loses thousands of subscribers, so you jump to YouTube but only end up with a couple dozen stragglers.
David Smalley's Dogma Debate podcast jumped the shark, so he thought he'd try his hand at YouTube. Now his audience is tiny. What an armature! That's The Smalley effect in action.
The Smalley effect by mmillennial February 25, 2018
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A US deep south term for an alligator. Usually used in the Cajun dialect.
Take the big pirogue, I saw a huge swamp dog out there earlier.
swamp dog by Crystal Ambrose May 22, 2006
Word of the Day on October 12, 2026

Throat Sweats 

The feeling and build up in your mouth/throat of saliva that sometimes accompanies nausea.
Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
Throat Sweats by TacoFings420 April 23, 2024
Word of the Day on October 11, 2026
Being ignored by someone when making a statement or asking a question. Also known as blanked and turfed.
Person 1: Did u watch ** last nite?
Person 2:......
Person 3: O no u got aired!
aired by Pietro February 9, 2005
Word of the Day on October 10, 2026

piddlefart

Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
Word of the Day on October 9, 2026
anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
28 hours and 4 clubs later, gurning for england but still refusing to go home - a total wrongun!!
wrongun by bevvers March 21, 2007
Word of the Day on October 8, 2026

square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
Word of the Day on October 7, 2026
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