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Think I've thunk up a new game - see if anyone wants to play....
Open yer dictionary randomly, and come up with a definition for the pairing of words listed at the top of the page. List the phrase they create, your definition, and the dictionary you are using. (Feel free to flip a few pages if you don't hit something you can use right away.) I do this, on occasion, just for fun....! anyone wanna play?
My examples:
escargot espousal: nuptials for snails. (from the Canadian Oxford)
mihrab milk fever: disease found only in devout Muslim cattle. (also from the Canadian Oxford)
petrodollar phalanx: the group, or compact mass, of nations that earn money from oil. (Cdn Oxford again)
demotic denunciation: popular appeal for peace from pestilential attentions. (Australian Pocket Oxford) hmm....reminds me of something I've seen somewhere recently....
honey hook: a sweet temptation that draws you in. (Aussie Pocket-Rocket Oxford again)
nom de guerre non sequitur: an illogical war name, such as Ghenghis the Peaceful Destroyer. (AUST Pocket Oxford)
isinglass isotope: a whiter shade of one of two or more forms of an element differing from each other in atomic weight. (Concise Oxford) Stales, mate, this one's for you!
pit pixie: a fairy that has been trained to savage other fairies. (Concise Oxford)
peyote Ph.D.: the degree you hallucinated you had after 40 days and 40 nights in the Mexican desert. (Concise Oxford)
Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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 Nice one, MG. Will definitely play, but as online dictionaries won't work you'll have to await me getting back home to the paper variety...
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chambers pocket dictionary 1988 excise ex officio- to discriminate on grounds of a persons job mousse mullion- the clouds that coast on the horizon that separate the sunset and the hills warble water- guinness! mesdames metropolis- department store lugubrious macaroni- the pasta that gets stuck to the colander juggernaut juxtaposition- car crash? dis a good game 
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again again
stagger stand- two drunks holding each other up
discourse disinclination- trappist monk ( is it trappist?)
snub soda- 1. a tiny bottle of pop like panda pops or 2. the cola served to you by vigilant aunties at parties who think you are too drunk
crayon creep- the slow discolouration of baby clothes
tumbrel turn- last minute pardon
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dodyskin, you make-a me and ! that's the spirit.....I especially like "stagger stand" and "crayon creep" and "lugubrious macaroni" and and and....! More from the Cdn Oxford: daywear deadpan: sartorial humour. bachelor apartment back eddy: toilet blockage for which a plunger is required. sayonara scallop: the last scallop, or scalloped potato, in the dish, eg. "Do you want the sayonara scallop, or may I have it?" vogue word voltage: the charge you get out of using up-to-date slang. Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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M-W10th--
picayune picnic-- a rather small, insipid meal eaten outdoors.
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at the risk of permanently infecting the game..
gonorreal goodyear - inflammation of the blimp
[Webster's new 20th century.. unabr.]
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at the risk of trivializing the game..
firkytoodling floccinaucinihilipilification - worthless foreplay
[Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of unusual, obscure and preposterous words]
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All from MW9th
ramble range- The amount of territory I can cover when I get a case of "itchy feet" That Travellin' Jones
latterday laving- A relaxing soak in a tub at the end of the day
execution exibit- museum wing devoted to putting people down six feet under, that is
pomatum poodle- a poodle with every single hair in place
scrim scuffling- a backlit staging of a struggle for physical superiority
petrographer phantom- Waltzing ghost of the Lost Dutchman Mine
fruit bat fugu- rare sushi dish eaten while hanging upside down
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