AKACroatalin's definitions

Counterproductive Workplace Behaviour

This is behaviour on the part of an employee or employees that works against the legitimate interests of the organisation that employs them or indeed their own interests. This sort of behaviour is detrimental to the organisation, its employees, clients and customers. It is believed that persons with a tendency to experience anger are more likely to respond to a stressful situation, such as being treated unfairly with counterproductive workplace behaviour.

When the supervisor blamed Charlie for his own mistake, Charlie deliberately jammed all three photocopiers in a fit of counterproductive workplace behaviour.

by AKACroatalin June 11, 2015

Oonch Fancier

British slang from the 1950s thought to have originated in East Anglia and meaning a lesbian. The word oonch is thought to have derived from the dialect pronunciation of 'conch' and was used as a slang name for the vagina due to the resemblance of the opening of the female genitalia to the opening of a conch shell. Thus a lesbian became an oonch fancier.

"Ah! I wouldn't mind a bit of that!"
"Forget it boy! She's an oonch fancier."

by AKACroatalin April 10, 2015

Decency

Decency is a noun and can have two distinct meanings:
1. Behaviour that conforms to accepted standards of morality or respectability.
2. Things required for a reasonable standard of life.

1. One example of decency is not calling people with a learning disability rug munchers.
2. In one sense, you do need money for decency.

by AKACroatalin February 26, 2017

BAB

Acronym, probably originating in the USA standing for Born Again Biker. This refers to a person, usually male in their forties or fifties, who goes through some sort of mid-life crisis and buys themselves a huge and expensive motorcycle, together with shedloads of gear and takes to the road in an attempt to recapture their lost youth. This is invariably a failure and many of them get over it in twelve to eighteen months, some of them, however, become traffic accident statistics.

Jimmy’s gone and bought himself a Ducati! He’s become a real BAB!

by AKACroatalin March 14, 2019

Traffic Calming Measure

This is something that happens in supermarkets; a two-seater with a trolley is wandering slowly and aimlessly down the aisles with a queue of other customers behind them. They seem apathetic and prepared to tolerate the slow progress, none of them apparently capable of saying “Excuse me” or “Can I just get by” or even “Get out of the way you fat, useless lump of shit!”
See also red rover, Traffic Jam, Road Block.

I went to the supermarket to pick up some food but didn’t bother, the place was full of traffic calming measures.

by AKACroatalin August 13, 2016

Dooberry

A mild slang name for a penis, supposedly less offensive that cock, prick, or dick, it does not have the fecal connotations of dingleberry but is used to describe the penis in much the same circumstances by much the same people. In addition it can also be used as a mildly disparaging term for a person who has exasperated you by doing something atypically stupid.

"I had to rush like hell to get here on time. I was halfway here when I remembered I'd left the contract in my desk at home and had to go back for them, I felt like a right dooberry."

by AKACroatalin March 16, 2015

Untoward

Untoward has a number of different meanings, three of the commonest uses are as follows:-

1 Unexpected and inconvenient;
2 Inappropriate, improper or unseemly;
3 Unfavourable or adverse;

1 The picnic was interrupted by an untoward shower of rain;
2 Malcolm’s untoward advances were rewarded with a kick in the nuts;
3 Some prescription drugs have untoward side effects;

by AKACroatalin October 24, 2016