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A namby-pamby (plural namby-pambies) is someone, usually a male, who is overly weak, sentimental or indecisive. It was a play on the name of Ambrose Philips, who wrote sickeningly sentimental poems for children. The nickname was devised by Henry Carey, a poet and songwriter, who wrote “God Save the Queen” and “My Country ‘tis of Thee”. It was popularized, however, by Alexander Pope in his satirical epic “The Dunciad”. It can also be used as an adjective meaning weak or spineless, lacking vigour or decisiveness, and overly sentimental.
by AKACroatalin June 9, 2015
Get the Namby-pamby mug.As the name suggests this is conflict within the workplace. These conflicts can be due to people with different personalities that just don’t get on well, or different opinions as to how the work should be done. Managers showing favouritism can cause or exacerbate workplace conflict as can the environment of the workplace itself or the hierarchical structure of the organisation.
Workplace conflict is pernicious and unpleasant and if there is no way that this conflict can be resolved you could be better off working for another organisation.
Workplace conflict is pernicious and unpleasant and if there is no way that this conflict can be resolved you could be better off working for another organisation.
“Mark and Terry are butting heads over product development again.”
“No surprise there, this place is full of workplace conflict, I’m just glad I’m gone at the end of the month."
“No surprise there, this place is full of workplace conflict, I’m just glad I’m gone at the end of the month."
by AKACroatalin June 2, 2015
Get the Workplace Conflict mug.Sharp rays of bright sunshine that pierce the canopy of a wood or forest. The word possibly owes part of its origin to shiv slang for a knife which in turn is derived from the Romany word chiv meaning a blade
by AKACroatalin February 12, 2019
Get the Shivelights mug.This phrase can be used to mean a number of different things:
1. A totally unacceptable way of referring to a person with a learning disability; see also window licker.
2. A somewhat disparaging way of referring to someone whose behaviour can vary from eccentric to clinically insane, who is prone to do things that range from slightly strange to outrageously weird.
3. A totally appropriate way of referring to someone, a small child or an adult with the mental capacity of a small child, such as a female suffering from acute princess syndrome, who is prone to temper tantrums, and will throw themselves to the ground and bite the carpet.
4. Possibly the best known and most humorously appropriate, someone, male or female who indulges in cunnilingus also known as muff diving. Incidentally, many lesbians refer to rug munching as “ling” (from cunnilingus) although ling is also a large, rather smelly fish, says it all really.
1. A totally unacceptable way of referring to a person with a learning disability; see also window licker.
2. A somewhat disparaging way of referring to someone whose behaviour can vary from eccentric to clinically insane, who is prone to do things that range from slightly strange to outrageously weird.
3. A totally appropriate way of referring to someone, a small child or an adult with the mental capacity of a small child, such as a female suffering from acute princess syndrome, who is prone to temper tantrums, and will throw themselves to the ground and bite the carpet.
4. Possibly the best known and most humorously appropriate, someone, male or female who indulges in cunnilingus also known as muff diving. Incidentally, many lesbians refer to rug munching as “ling” (from cunnilingus) although ling is also a large, rather smelly fish, says it all really.
1. It is unacceptable to call a person with a learning disability a 'rug muncher'.
2. Malcolm is acting stranger and stranger, he always was a bit weird but he’s turning into a right rug muncher.
3. What a thoroughly nasty little brat, screaming because she can’t get her own way! A thoroughly nasty little rug muncher.
4. Look at those two dykes groping each other in public! Get a room you rug munchers!
2. Malcolm is acting stranger and stranger, he always was a bit weird but he’s turning into a right rug muncher.
3. What a thoroughly nasty little brat, screaming because she can’t get her own way! A thoroughly nasty little rug muncher.
4. Look at those two dykes groping each other in public! Get a room you rug munchers!
by AKACroatalin December 27, 2016
Get the Rug Muncher mug.Adjustable means having the facility to be changed so as to match or fit, such as an adjustable spanner. It can also mean capable of being regulated, such as adjustable interest rates.
by AKACroatalin May 31, 2015
Get the Adjustable mug.Slang believed to have originated in the North of England, bird turding means to talk nonsense, or to boast with nothing to back it up. Possibly derived via pigeon fanciers, telling someone that they are bird turding means that they don't have the facts and are basically talking bird shit. Telling someone that they "ain't bird turding" means that they have got it right.
"Winkies who try to aggrandise themselves using Urban Dictionary are just WOSPs."
"You ain't bird turding there, pal."
"You ain't bird turding there, pal."
by AKACroatalin April 4, 2015
Get the Bird Turding mug.This is US Army slang commonly used during the Vietnam War. It was also used during the Korean War and may even date back to World War II. It means a soldier who is a combat virgin whose behaviour in combat is, therefore, unpredictable. When soldiers like this arrived in a unit, as a replacement for someone killed or wounded, they were often viewed with suspicion and were referred to as FNGs, until they had proved themselves.
by AKACroatalin February 21, 2019
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