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tumbrel remark

A comment made by a rich person that makes the lower class think of lampposts and guillotines.
Marie Antoinette saying, "Let them eat cake," is a tumbrel remark.
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tumbrilitis 

Intentionally rounding up human beings and placing them on mass transit to ship them away or out of an area. Usually these are cattle cars and the purpose is not good.
During World War II, the German government practiced tumbrilitis against innocent people.
tumbrilitis by Someone123454321 February 22, 2009

tumerilous 

A combination of the root words tumultuous and perilous meaning a violent chaotic ordeal. Usually referring to a period of a school year.
She was having tumerilous semester.
tumerilous by Halo88 November 29, 2011
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
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An armpit enthusiast — typically of the scent, appearance, and touch of hairy underarms.
That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.
Pitpig by wimbledon May 28, 2026
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