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pamelad has made 89 comments and citations:
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Comments 1 through 89 of 89
on the list There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head, pamelad said:
"paralytic, tired and emotional" more...
on comedogenic, pamelad said:
"Amuses you as it blocks your pores." more...
on text, pamelad said:
"To send an SMS. Past tense texted is very clumsy.

Something studied in a high school English class, could be a film or a comic." more...
on the list amber words, pamelad said:
"Escutcheons only come with blots." more...
on the list It's a Man's World, pamelad said:
"Maybe there are so many pejorative terms for female promiscuity because of the fear in times past that if the wife was not "pure" a man's heir might..." more...
on the list It's a Man's World, pamelad said:
"Wanker, tool" more...
on the list It's a Man's World, pamelad said:
Cobblers
"A bit tenuous, but continues the stupidity theme.

A load of cobblers

Meaning

Nonsense, rubbish.

Origin
This is a classic of Cockney rhyming..." more...
on the list It's a Man's World, pamelad said:
"Cock up - to make a mess of something" more...
on the list It's a Man's World, pamelad said:
"Dickheads and dickwits are stupid men. Do they count as male-oriented words describing the negative?" more...
on lairise, pamelad said:
"hoon around" more...
on mozz, pamelad said:
"to cause bad luck e.g. to mozz someone" more...
on mozzie, pamelad said:
"mosquito" more...
on the list Hogwash!, pamelad said:
"codswallop" more...
on whinge, pamelad said:
"moan and whine" more...
on blue, pamelad said:
"Nick name for a person with red hair." more...
on buckley's chance, pamelad said:
"There used to be a department store in Melbourne - Buckley and Nunn. You've got Buckley's means - "you've got two chances, Buckley's and none." more...
on sciolist, pamelad said:
"a false pretender to knowledge" more...
on big note, pamelad said:
"Big note yourself - brag, make yourself seem important" more...
on homodox, pamelad said:
"of the same opinion" more...
on pleistodox, pamelad said:
"holding the opinion of the majority" more...
on adoxal, pamelad said:
"absurd, not according to reason" more...
on cacodox, pamelad said:
"holding a wrong or evil opinion" more...
on doxastic, pamelad said:
"depending on or exercising opinion" more...
on doxographer, pamelad said:
"one who collects and records the opinions of others" more...
on morepork, pamelad said:
"Never, ever heard anyone in Australia call anyone a morepork, so as far as this being a term of abuse someone's kidding someone. Here's a poem that..." more...
on the list Scripted Apathy, pamelad said:
"Definitely. I take your point." more...
on pot, pamelad said:
"10 oz glass, usually of beer." more...
on ask, pamelad said:
"In Australia we say ahsk and mispronounce it ahks. Like arsk in Boston (Thanks AbraxasZugswang)." more...
on schedule, pamelad said:
"More than it schould?" more...
on squatter, pamelad said:
"We still have the squattocracy in the western distict - remember Malcolm Fraser? Life wasn't meant to be easy." more...
on source, pamelad said:
"Source of the Nile - fine. To source something, rather than finding it or buying it, is no good at all." more...
on daks, pamelad said:
"Trousers e.g. trackie daks - tracksuit pants" more...
on the list Pants related words, pamelad said:
"Shorts, pedal pushers, trackie daks" more...
on bushwhacker, pamelad said:
"An unsophisticated person from the bush or....." more...
on bush, pamelad said:
"The bush is the countryside - hence bushwhacking." more...
on melbourne, pamelad said:
"pronounced melb'n" more...
on hack, pamelad said:
"Cough. A tired old horse. Computer hacking. Chop carelessly." more...
on fag, pamelad said:
"Can't be fagged - can't be bothered. Fagged out - tired." more...
on the list Words Some People Can't Pronounce, No Matter How Often They Try, pamelad said:
"Anemone often ends up as anenome. Hydrangeas - hyderanges. And instead of a frangipani, my grandma had a fransypansy." more...
on maroon, pamelad said:
"Maroon the colour is pronounced marone here in Australia. In the US?" more...
on featherstonehaugh, pamelad said:
"An English surname pronounced fanshaw" more...
on interface, pamelad said:
"A horrible word as a noun and even worse as a verb." more...
on polly, pamelad said:
"politician" more...
on sickie, pamelad said:
"To drop a sickie - take a day off work, officially due to illness" more...
on transpontine, pamelad said:
"on the other side of a bridge" more...
on the list Stuffie: Picking Up the Pieces, pamelad said:
"How can you mend a broken heart?" more...
on spaghettification, pamelad said:
"the process by which an object would be stretched and ripped apart by gravitational forces on falling into a black hole" more...
on the list Corporate Buzz Words and Phrases, pamelad said:
"Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words by Don Watson is very entertaining on corporate and other weasel words. www.weaselwords.com.au" more...
on doily, pamelad said:
"Found with the antimacassar and the aspidistra." more...
on the list You say either, pamelad said:
"you say ducktor" more...
on the list You say either, pamelad said:
"Schedule as in shed, not sked." more...
on tinnie, pamelad said:
"can (tin) of beer" more...
on stubby, pamelad said:
"small bottle of beer" more...
on texta, pamelad said:
"felt marker pen" more...
on the list Meanings have changed over the years, either due to trends or sheer stupidity, pamelad said:
"facility" more...
on the list A Bit Old Fashioned, pamelad said:
"scallywag" more...
on the list Words Some People Can't Pronounce, No Matter How Often They Try, pamelad said:
"Words that sound so differently from the way they're written: banal, macabre, segue" more...
on antimacassar, pamelad said:
"Antimacassars, thought to be extinct, are breeding in twee B&B's." more...
on the list sans prefix, pamelad said:
"fer" more...
on the list sans prefix, pamelad said:
"nominy, poplectic" more...
on the list sans prefix, pamelad said:
"crepit, dain, prave" more...
on dag, pamelad said:
"A dag has more personality than a nerd." more...
on ratbag, pamelad said:
"An Australian term of abuse - not as bad as it sounds. Can be used jovially." more...
on the list I don't give a damn, pamelad said:
"mercy, faith, hope, charity, grace, rock (as in hudson), rip (as in Rip Torn), dale" more...
on the list djp72's Words, pamelad said:
"you little beauty!" more...
on strewth, pamelad said:
"Alternative spelling struth. Think it might be short for God's truth. It's an exclamation of incredulity." more...
on cow cockie, pamelad said:
"dairy farmer" more...
on woop woop, pamelad said:
"A place a long way from anywhere. Like "back of Bourke"." more...
on bobfet1's profile, pamelad said:
"Glad you liked dramaturd bobfet1. Hope you can ease it into a conversation." more...
on dramaturg, pamelad said:
"I always read this as dramaturd." more...
on the list Meanings have changed over the years, either due to trends or sheer stupidity, pamelad said:
"fabulous

Nice as in a "nice distinction" more...
on the list urrbody in the club get..., pamelad said:
"paralytic" more...
on the list prone to confusion/misspelling, pamelad said:
"incongruous incongruent" more...
on the list Inconceivable! The Most Misused Words, pamelad said:
"icon
I'm sick of icons and things that are iconic. Icons are everywhere." more...
on dissentering, pamelad said:
"disinterring? unburying" more...
on the list Fun word-phrases, pamelad said:
"To shilly-shally is to dither, vacillate. Nice to see it in your list. It's a verb." more...
on the list speaking in tongues, pamelad said:
"deja vu" more...
on the list Fun word-phrases, pamelad said:
"shilly-shally" more...
on the list Words Noir, pamelad said:
"moll, stool pigeon, gat, private eye, dick" more...
on the list sleight of hand, pamelad said:
"lift, con, shaft
Are they too slangy?" more...
on the list d is for depressing!, pamelad said:
"dismay, despair, defeated, debauched" more...
on the list Meanings have changed over the years, either due to trends or sheer stupidity, pamelad said:
"hopefully, want, awesome, awful, enormity" more...
on the list Words Some People Can't Pronounce, No Matter How Often They Try, pamelad said:
"secretary" more...
on habadashery, pamelad said:
"haberdashery?" more...
on the list Olde Fashyned Slang, pamelad said:
"From Australia: grouse(very good), zac (sixpence), bonzer." more...
on the list for me not to overuse when public-speaking, pamelad said:
"like" more...
on the list Words Some People Can't Pronounce, No Matter How Often They Try, pamelad said:
"ask (aks) government umbrella (umberella)" more...
on the list Place names that are fun to say, pamelad said:
"Woy Woy (New South Wales?)
Spike Milligan's mother lived there." more...
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