audiation n.— «“My goal is to teach kids to hear a sound in their head without that sound being made,” he said. The process is called “audiation.”» —“Band instructor uses non-traditional method in music...
gnarz n.— «TSE: What is “gnarz?” MH: It basically is what it is. A record ends in an endless loop. Then the needle goes (he makes a noise replicating the sound). That’s what I call “gnarz.” And when I first tried to give the sound a...
lunchpail levy n.— «Instead of using silly euphemisms that sound like something off a Wal-Mart flip-chart, highway officials ought to call this what it really is: a Lunchpail Levy. Apparently it’s escaped the notice of the traffic...
dirka-dirka interj.— «We have in the movie all the terrorists talk basically in this Arabic gibberish which they just go, you know, “Dirka-dirka, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali,” and they talk like—”Muhammad jihad,” and...
shi-shi n. urine or urination. Also make shi-shi or go shi-shi ‘to urinate.’ Editorial Note: Reduplicated shi, from the Japanese shiko ‘urine.’ Also imitative of the sound of streaming water. A similar expression occurs in Portuguese, according to...
walla n.— «Gone are the days when actors would stand around muttering nonsense syllables, such as “walla walla,” to approximate conversation—hence the term “walla” to describe the effect.…”I might say...