Heenan's Universal Dictionary
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GADAR
The ability of a gay person to spot another at
126.5 metres, closeted or not. [Queen's]
GARTER
Elastic band intended to keep a woman from
coming out of her stockings and desolating the country. [Ambrose
Bierce]
GAY
Good As You. [Queen's]
GEEKOSPHERE
The area surrounding a computer where personal items are displayed.
[Palo Alto]
GENEALOGY
An account of one's descent
from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. [Ambrose
Bierce]
GENES
Blue denim slacks.
[Rural]
GENITAL
Not a Jew.
[Rural]
GENIUS
[1] The capacity for evaluation of uncertain,
hazardous, and conflicting information.
[Sir Winston Churchill]
[2] One who can do anything except earn a living.
[Joey Adams]
GENTLEMAN
[1] One who never inflicts pain. [Cardinal
Newman]
[2] One who lives by robbing the poor. [George
Bernard Shaw]
[3] A man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. [Fred Allen]
GEOGRAPHER
One who can tell the difference
between the outside of the world and the inside. [Ambrose
Bierce]
GIBLETS
Useless but colorful items to be added,
changed or dispensed with. [MTBike]
GLAMBASSADOR
Diplomat selected for his or her celebrity
and appearance, not for any particular knowledge of foreign policy or international
affairs. [Anon]
GLIBIDO:
All talk and no action. [Anon]
GOVERNMENT
Even at its best, a necessary evil; at its worst, an intolerable one.
[Tom Paine]
GHOST
The outward and visible sign of
an inward fear. [Ambrose
Bierce]
G.I.SERIES
A Soldiers Ball Game
[Rural]
GLAZING
Sleeping with your eyes open. "After
10 minutes, we were all glazing."
[Palo Alto]
GLIBIDO
All talk and no action. [Anon]
GLUTTON
A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. [Ambrose
Bierce]
GOTCHIES
Underwear. [Coal-Speak]
GOTNEE
Have you got any? As in "Gotnee korders for da' meeder?" [Coal-Speak]
GRANTARTICA
The cold, isolated place where art companies
dwell without funding. [Anon]
GRATITUDE
The secret hope of further favours [Francois
de la Rochefoucauld]
GRAVE
A place in which the dead
are laid to await the coming of the medical student. [Ambrose
Bierce]
G-SPAT
Post coital argument.
[Indie]
GUILLOTINE
A machine which makes a Frenchman
shrug his shoulders with good reason. [Ambrose
Bierce]
