Comments by danni

  • From pommy - acronym for Prisoners Of Mother England (pome) - about those convicts shipped off

    August 27, 2009

  • Oh! Grant, you and Martha did this one a couple of times on your show! How about these: http://www.lurvemag.com/

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lurve&page=2

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lurve

    I'll keep checking back!!

    Danni

    July 12, 2009

  • It's a musical instrument like a mini guitar. Makes me think of George Formby 'cleanin winders'

    July 3, 2009

  • "khasi n pron. “kah-zee” toilet: I’m away to the khasi to drain the lizard. Less likely in more refined conversation: Excuse me, madam - could you direct me to the khasi? It may be derived from Arabic. This might not be true. People lie to me all the time."

    http://septicscompanion.com/mailman/listinfo/britword_septicscompanion.com

    July 3, 2009

  • http://home. comcast.net/ ~wwftd

    prob. an imitative alteration of whinging

    Sc. and n. Eng. regional : whining, complaining, moping; peevish

    "That useless peenging thing of a lassie there, at Ellangowan.. ."

    - Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (1815)

    "And he says, I've sold some neeps - you ken he had that girny peenging voice - I've sold a cartload of neeps to a chiel in London, but he wants me to deliver them, and I don't ken where it is."

    - Duncan McLean, Blackden (1994)

    July 1, 2009

  • teen magazine / humorous spelling of "love"

    June 21, 2009