Australian slang; An investigator from a welfare agency, who comes to your house to test your eligibility and question weather or not you are having sexual relations with your housemates. (As income could be less for people in a defacto relationship, than that of people simply co-residing.
Had to set up a second bed in the spare room today, because the bed sniffers are coming to investigate.
Bed sniffer is someone who actively tries to get into other people's sex lives uninvited and when it is not their business. a bed sniffer is also when someone is on the act of persecuting people based on sexuality, non life threatening, and sanitary fetishes and kinks.
1. george: "Did you really tell the head of our department that Jack was having sexual relations with a customer that actually met at a cafe??"
Jake: "of course I did, they were both men."
George: "Jake, you are just being a bed sniffer, the two did nothing wrong but shared coffee and went behind closed doors."
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.