origination in the term 'desi'- a colloquial descriptive of a person from india, the desh, the motherland,
desication/desification refers to the progressive acquisition of indian cultural traits by non-indians and especially white people.
this indianising of an individual or a culture is exemplified when a person becomes adept at eating with their hands (and intensifies when they can eat rice with their hands), when their spice tolerance levels reach impressive levels (impressive even to desis), when they know and can recount the names of various dishes and the different spice combinations in each and finally concretises when a movie scene with dancing in the rain invokes the use of the fast forward button.
"joans desication/desification is almost complete. she knows how to eat rice with her hands and she can eat spicy food now"
When blood from a woman's menstrual cycle is recycled to it's purest form to be employable for donation. This includes the filtration of the lining of the uterus, and other matter that is discharged from the vagina, that is not part of the usable blood.
Dave's girlfriend is on her period. She can help save a lot of lives if she donates her blood by hemovaginal desalination.
The process of breaking down barriers to knowledge caused by separate organizations not cooperating, or aware of the others existence.
One university professor in the group referred to his own division where he spoke of 3 different chairs of different areas of water management that never interacted with each other until the desilofication began.
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.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
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.