weequashing
n. the spearing of fish or eels by torchlight from canoes
Language
In a Word
speustic
adj. baked in haste
Slovenian Disney Characters
Slovenian names of Disney characters:
- Mickey Mouse: Miki Miška
- Minnie Mouse: Mini Miška
- Donald Duck: Jaka Racman
- Daisy Duck: Jakica Racman
- Scrooge McDuck: Stric Skopušnik
- Huey, Dewey and Louie: Pak, Žak in Mak
- Goofy: Pepe
- Pluto: Pluton
- Chip ‘n Dale: Cik in Cak
In a Word
omphaloskepsis
n. navel-gazing
Six Stick Shifts Stuck Shut
Dangerous tongue twisters:
I am not the pheasant plucker,
I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
Because the pheasant plucker’s late.
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit;
and on the slitted sheet I sit.
I’m not the fig plucker,
Nor the fig pluckers’ son,
But I’ll pluck figs
Till the fig plucker comes.
Anagrams
Anagrams:
- DEBIT CARD = BAD CREDIT
- MOTHER-IN-LAW = WOMAN HITLER
- SLOT MACHINES = CASH LOST IN ‘EM
- DESPERATION = A ROPE ENDS IT
- ASTRONOMER = MOON STARER
- ELECTION RESULTS = LIES — LET’S RECOUNT
And SNOOZE ALARMS = ALAS! NO MORE Z’S.
Unquote
“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.” — Helen Keller
In a Word
growlery
n. a retreat for times of ill humor
Also Abstemiously
The shortest word containing six unique vowels in alphabetical order is facetiously.
Subcontinental has them in reverse order.
In a Word
ultracrepidate
v. to criticize beyond sphere of one’s knowledge