Word Verictionary

 Ever notice how some of the word verifications are almost like real words?  Sometimes they just beg to be defined, or maybe I just lack any real ideas.  Either way, here are some I am defining.  Feel free to offer your own definitions in the com.

Orlness: a quality one develops after consuming excessive amounts of synthetically based foods or buying into political double-speak.

Oveludi: the newest dance craze, a fusion of the polka, classical Indian dance, and square dancing, which is done to the music of slide whistles and didgeridoos.

Glermica: a pudding made from the insides of those silica gel packets you find in everything from shoeboxes to pill bottles.

Plyske: a spade like tool used by politicians for shoveling their particular brand of bovine excrement or for stirring glermica,

Munness: the quality exhibited by an exceptionally boring lecturer or filibustering politician.

Ateraph: a little known Pharaoh whose sole achievement was the ill-fated construction of a pyramid of camel's milk cheese.

Sperhum: the retching sound made by crowds assembled to celebrate a pyramid of camel's milk cheese in the middle of the Egyptian desert.

Fluddy: torrential blithering.

Peranics:  the teachings of a newly emerged religious cult which requires adherents to dance the Oveludi in celebration of the life of the great Prophet Hyphert.

Hyphert:  cult figure revered for his great dance moves.

Phalf: the word denoting the contents of my brain which are responsible for such a fluddyrific post.

Not Lost in Translation

Since there were a few of you who ventured to give guesses for the 8 words I posted at the end of the meme yesterday I will include the actual meanings today.  Then as a lazy blogger's excuse for a post I'll give you links to 3 dialect-related posts from between 3 and 4 years ago. 

 

1. Hinnerdale: Pennsylvania German for your hind end. Boy, you better straighten up and fly right or I'm gonna paddle your hinnerdale!

2. Dingolay: Trini slang meaning to dance with abandon. Yuh was at de fete (party) las' night?  Yes, an' I get on bad when I dingolay!

3. Stroobly: Pennsylvania German for unkempt or messy hair. I never saw such stroobly hair, now comb it before you leave this house!

4. Yampee: Trini slang for the gunk in the corners of your eye in the morning. So late in the day an' yuh jus' wake?  Don't lie I see the yampee in yuh eye.

5. Ferhoodled: Pennsylvania German for being completely mixed up or confused.Was it the second right after the old barn or the first right after the second barn?  Ach, I'm so ferhoodled!

6. Mamaguy: Trini slang for flattery designed to manipulate. Flora, yuh lookin' so good tonight.  Oh, don't mamaguy me!  I just finish rolling roti dough and I'm covered in flour.

7. Grex: Pennsylvania German for complaining, fussing or whining.  Especially applicable to fussy babies or children but applicable to adults who are out of sorts as well. Why you grexing so?  Things aren't so bad.

8. Pull bull: Trini slang for when people use their private car as an unlicensed taxi in order to make some money. Winston, yuh best go pull bull if we would pay the light bill this month.

For a bit more Dutchified Inlish check here.

For a few Trini phrases check here.

For a whole story in Trini slang check here.