AKACroatalin's definitions

Toxic workplace

A toxic workplace is somewhere you really don’t want to be as, even if you try to avoid it, you will be dragged into the backstabbing shit that’s going on and it will adversely affect you. It’s a place usually characterised by drama and infighting and where the personal battles between individuals or departments harm productivity. Toxic workplaces are often the result of workers who are, themselves, best described as toxic. These individuals are motivated solely by personal interest, the desire for money, power and status. They will use any means no matter how unethical, mean-spirited or illegal to manipulate the system for their own ends whilst undermining others and diverting attention away from their own shortcomings.

Toxic workplaces have been found to have profoundly adverse effects on the health and wellbeing of the non-toxic people working in them. The best advice if you find yourself working in such an environment, no matter how good the money or benefits, get out as quickly as possible.

“Malcolm’s crawling round Mark again trying to undermine Nick.”
“That toe-rag really is poisonous; he’s turning this into a real toxic workplace.”

by AKACroatalin May 26, 2015

YouTuber

Someone who posts clips or pontificates on YouTube. Usually a brain-dead nonentity with no friends who is idolised by cretinous preteens who have no life.

To admire YouTubers most likely means you have a screw loose.

by AKACroatalin September 7, 2016

Pettinger

Noun - A maker and seller of pottage, a thick soup or stew. I couldn't believe it either, but I knew someone with that surname, surprisingly, perhaps, I found out what it meant before they did.

A pettinger is a maker and seller of pottage

by AKACroatalin September 30, 2020

Sycophancy

Sycophancy is self-serving or servile flattery. It probably derives from the Latin sȳcophantia, meaning trickery, and consists of the fawning behaviour of useless two-faced self-seeking toe rag who attempts to win favour by flattering and pandering to the boss. A person who does this is known as a sycophant or more informally as ass-kisser, crawler, toady, lackey, apple polisher, boot licker, fawner, groveler, groveller, or truckler.

Sycophancy, that snotrag Malcolm wrote the book.

by AKACroatalin December 1, 2016

Kweefing

The releasing of gas (a fart) from the penis or vagina. WARNING – This may indicate a potentially life threatening medical condition. The person suffering from this may have a fistula, you can read up on this on the internet, but this case it means that there is a hole or an unnatural connection between the urethra and rectum. They must get treatment for this, so convince them to see a doctor. If there is any faecal discharge go to A & E or the Emergency Room at the nearest hospital immediately do not put this off as your life may be in danger.

Georgie thought kweefing was funny ‘til he developed general septicaemia, his funeral’s next week.

by AKACroatalin November 23, 2015

SFA

An acronym with multiple meanings:
1. Sweet Fuck All;
2. Smelly Fat Arse/Ass;
3. Sweet Fanny Adams;
4. Sad Fucking Act;

There are probably more than the ones listed here, but you can see from context that there is nothing good about any of them, so if someone uses SFA and your name in the same sentence they ain’t paying you a compliment.

Malcolm has:
1. SFA in the way of brains;
2. A very large SFA;
3. Is worth SFA to the organisation;
4. and is a complete SFA.

by AKACroatalin October 4, 2016

Oxterful

Old slang from the Isle of Man meaning an armful. It’s not used much nowadays but it refers to the amount of wood for the fire, packages, that you can carry under, or with, one arm.

Open the door I’ve got a double oxterful of wood for the fire.

by AKACroatalin January 10, 2017