Muzzie n.— «I’ve always been a great believer in having the odd Muslim in the side.…With their well-known religious what-have-yous, the Muzzies were put i/c car keys and the lads went through an entire season without one drink...
mayor’s cell n.— «The mayor’s cell served kind of as “camp counselor,” handing out keys to rooms and making sure chow was served on time. My BC turned out to be the mayor, explaining how my ass got dragged down there...
textonym n.— «Meg Kingston introduces us to the textonym. That’ll be the set of words generated by a particular sequence of key presses on a mobile phone, when the phone’s software is predicting what word you want. For example, keys 2-2-4...
without keys adj.— «He was homeless—without even a car to sleep in. He was, in homeless parlance—”without keys.”» —“Giving homeless vets new hope” by Louise Continelli Buffalo News (N.Y.) Nov...
tumshie n.— «We are given a blustering blundering tumshie, jingling keys and flapping his arms against his sides like a penguin on ecstasy.» —“Eggs and the oaf” by Mary Lockhart The Herald (Glasgow...
spizzerinctum n.— «The mayor had a vistion,/In his slumbers he was troubled,/Dreamed he saw a huge petition/Signed by more than 80,000/Of the people of they city,/Praying for a referendum./…It was signed by Cephas Wojjers,/...