Acronyms Preeminently Realized! Organizing Nuggets! Your Memory Soars!
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| 80% | ABNORMAL | Against Banality - Not Ordinary Run of the Mill Average Lumpenproletariat |
Angela Brett - last word supplied by Tony McCoy O'Grady. |
| 100% | ABSTRUSE | A Bit Strange:- To Readily Understand - Seek Explanation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ABUNDANT | All But Uncountable... Never Did Anyone Need Total |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | AD HOC | All Designs Have Objective Course |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | ALONE | Always Left Out - Not Enjoyable. |
Angela Brett. Tony replied by saying ''Alone' is not always a case of being left out - it can be a case of leaving! You're confiusing being alone with being lonely!' and demonstrating with some more versions of ALONE. People & Relationships |
| 71% | ALONE (2) | A Little Oneness (is a) Nice Experience |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 83% | ALONE (3) | Another Lovely Opportunity Not (to) Engage |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 83% | ALONE (4) | A Lonesome Occassion (is) Nice Enough |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 100% | ALONE (5) | A Loved One Never Encroaches |
Tony McCoy O'Grady. (Who adds: assuming they respect your wish for solitude) People & Relationships |
| 100% | ALONE (6) | Appropriate Leisure Offers Nice Escape |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 100% | ALONE (7) | Anthony/Angela Looks On, Needn't Entangle |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 89% | APPROVED | Allowed Past Point to Restricted Offices - Verified/Voted Entry-Deserving |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | APPROVED (2) | Admitted Past Protective Ringfence, Owns Verified Entry Document |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | APPROVED (3) | Allowed Publish Personal Recollections Once Vigilant Editor Declassifies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | AUSPICIOUS | An Unspecified Superstition Presents Itself, Creating Intuition Of Unbridled Success |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | AWAKE | Aware While Assuming Knowing Everything |
Bruce Siegel |
| 100% | AWESOME | A Wonderful Enthusiastic Special Occurance, Memories Evident |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | AWESOME (2) | A Wonderful Enthusiastic Special One, Marvels Everyone |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | AWFUL | Another Word For Unusually Loathsome |
Edwin Hermann |
| 100% | BIG | Behold Its Greatness! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | BIGGER | By Increments Gaining Greater Expansion Rate |
Tony Moore |
| 100% | BIZARRE | Brilliant Idea, Zany Attitude Riotous Reaction Ensued |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 88% | BIZARRE (2) | Babies In Zoos Are Routinely Re-sold Elsewhere |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology |
| 100% | BODACIOUS | Body's Obviously Desirable And Curvacious - I'll Ogle Unbelievable Silhouette. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BRILLIANT | Bright Resounding Idea - Let's Leave It Alone, Not Tamper |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BURNED OUT (2) | Beyond Use & Ruined - Now Employee's Defunct One's Usually Terminated |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 86% | CHANCY | Can't Have Anything Never-failing, Can You? |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CHANCY (2) | Casino Houses Are Never Completely Yielding |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CLEAN (2) | Cleansed Lavishly Evidently All Neat |
Jan Morgan People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| 100% | COHERENT | Consistent, Or Having Exact Relationships Evident - Nothing Tearaway. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | COLD | Colour Of Legs Darkens |
Angela Brett |
| 93% | COMPLEMENTARY | Couple Of Matched Parts Look Elegantly Made, Each Needing T'other And Reconciling Ying&yang-ness |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | DIFFICULT | Does It Feel Funny? It Contrasts Usual Light Tasks. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | DIM | Dark In Matters |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | DISGUSTING | Dirty Item, Smutty, Genuinely Ugly, Stomach Turning! It's Not Good! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Insults |
| 100% | DIVERSE | Different, Indeed Varied, Entities Reach Separate Ends |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | DOG TIRED | Drowsy, Or Getting Tetchy, I'd Rather Experience Dormancy |
Tony McCanine O'Grady |
| 100% | DROLL | Deadpan Response Of Little Lightheartedness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 80% | EASY | Executable by Any Slackjawed Yokel |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | EQUAL | Enigmatic Question Upsetting Answers Levelled |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | FAB | Fantastic And Brilliant |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FAB (2) | Faintly Absurd & Backdated |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FAIL SAFE! | Failure: Assuredly Impossible! (Lost Stability Automatically - First Energising!) |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Inciders obtaned this Ofishyule Seekret Docyoumeant of the SIRC (Sertintlee Infinnitlee Relieabell Corporation) "From page 123 of the SIRC (Proprietary Info): 'This widely advertised, THINGAMAJIG has specifications (inside parentheses are actual performance): Failure: Assuredly Impossible! (Loses Stability Automatically - First Energising). ONLY USE IN NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MORTAL COMBAT ."Furthermore, because of our marketers' keen insight, we sold hundreds where the soldiers used THINGAMAJIGs only as specified. AS WAR GROWS SO SIRC'S CAPITAL GROWS" Commerce:Companies:SIRC |
| 100% | FAINT | Feel(s) As If Not There |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | FIRST | Foremost Innovator, Respected Sage Top |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 83% | FISHY | Filthy Intense Stench Hang's-around..... Yeuch |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FLACCID | Floppy, Limp And Collapsed, Cock Is Dangling! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FLAT | Few Landfills Are This |
Edwin Hermann |
| 100% | FLORAL | Flaunting Likenesses Of Rhododendrons And Lilies |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GAUDY | Garish And Unusually Decadent - Yuck! |
Melanie Merswolke |
| 100% | GENERIC | Generalised Extremely, Not Explicit... Really Inspecific Codswallop. |
Angela Brett, when Bern complained that her HERNIA was too generic. See also: INSPECIFIC |
| 100% | GOBSMACKED | Genuinely Overcome By Speechlessness. Mouth Apparently Completely Knackered - Extremely Dumbfounded. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who was gobsmacked that Jeff acronymised his forum post - see http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/list.cgi?id=acronyms&user=&session=&root=983076143 Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | GOOD | Greatly Overused, Ordinary Declaration. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GOOD (2) | Glosses Over One's Depression |
Angela Brett, because most people say, 'good' or something similar when asked how they are, regardless of their true situations. People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | HOT | Heightening Of Thermoactivity |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| 100% | HUGE | Has, Unexpectedly, Grown Enormously |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ICY | It's Cold... Yikes! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | IMPOSSIBLE | I Mustn't Pass On Something So Irresistible... 'Bad' Letters Expanded! |
Angela Brett, when it was said that EPHEMERAL was impossible to expand. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | IMPOSSIBLE (2) | Insomniac Mrs. Pleads, "Oh, Stop Snoring!" Instead Bringing Louder Explosions. |
Angela Brett (some people won't stop snoring no matter what you do!) Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | INANE | It's Not A Nip Exciting |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | INVALID | Inane Nonsense: Verily, A Logically? Inferred Deprivation |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | JUICY | Jointly Uncovering Interrupted Coition Yields |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | LARGE | Lengthier And Relatively Greater, Evidently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | LOST | Looking Over Strange Terrain |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | LOUD | Loony Or Uncouth Din |
Patricia Rix Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | LOUD (2) | Lots Of Unbearable Decibels |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | LUCID | Less Utterly Confused In Delirium |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | LUCID (2) | Logical, Uncluttered, Cogent, Intelligent Discourse |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | LYTHE | Lissom? Yes, Thank Healthy Exercise |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | MACABRE | Mourning Across Canada As Beautiful Robin Expires |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MACABRE (2) | Menacing Atmosphere Collects Around Bewildering Revelatory Experience |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MADCAP | Mental Ability's Defective - Call A Psychiatrist |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness |
| 91% | MAINSTREAM | Most Anti-Indie Nerds Sell-out. Tripe Reigns Everywhere... And Moulds. |
Rob Rix |
| 100% | MANIFOLD | Much About Nature Is Full Of Living Diversity |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady Science |
| 100% | MANKEY | Muck Abounds, Nearly Kneedeep - Everything's Yucky |
Tony McCoy O'Grady. Mankey is a slang word for dirty. A long time ago a group of boyscouts set to cleaning out a river-fed swimming pool. There was a lot of knee-high silt/mud/decaying-vegatation at the bottom of the pool which was nicknamed 'mank'. The scouts thought that they had coined a new word, but there was probably some subconscious reference to 'mankey' Sports & Recreation:Scouts |
| 100% | MEMORABLE | Many Endearing Memories, One Really Astounding Bit Lingers Eternally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | MOTLEY | Mixture Of Things Lacking 'Ensembleness' - Yes? |
TMcCO'G |
| 83% | MUDDY | Mucky Udders Dirty Dancing Yakity-yak |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | MUNTED | Malfunctioning; Used Normally To Express Disgust |
Gavin Lambert |
| 100% | NORMAL | Not Outstanding - Really Mundane And Lacklustre |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | OBSCENE | Object Bigoted Society Can Excoriate Not Expunge |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | OBVIOUS | Oh Brother, View Is Of Usual Situation |
Jan Morgan |
| 86% | ORNATE | Ornamentally Rich in Nice And Traditional Engravings |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PALTRY | Pathetic Amount, Likely To Revolt You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PALTRY (2) | Puny Allotment Leaves The Recipient Yearning |
Melanie Merswolke |
| 100% | PALTRY (3) | Piddling Amount - Less Than Required - Yuck! |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | PATHETIC | People Against The Hypothesis Earth Travels In Circles |
Rico Leffanta Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | PERFECT | Picky Evaluators Rarely Find Everything's Completely Tiptop |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | POOPED | Passed Out, One's Partially Expired, Dearest |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PURE | Perfectly Unsullied, Remaining Entire |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | QUAINT | Quasi Unique Artifact - It's Not Today's |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 83% | QUIET (4) | Quick Understanding Immediate Exit (of) Talk |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | QUINTUPLE | Quadruple's Understood... Increment, Now, To Use Penta-Like Enumerator. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | REVOLTING (2) | Reproducing Erotica Via Open-Line Talkback Is Not Good! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | REVOLTING (3) | Retailing Emasculated Vagina On Local Toilets Is Normally Grotesque. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett |
| 100% | SAFE! | Sweet Abode! Full! Employed! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | SAFE (4) | Sanely Approach Future Empathetically! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. People & Relationships:Advice |
| 100% | SARCASTIC | Sometimes Ambiguous Reverse Comments Aren't Sensed, Triggering Incorrect Conclusion. |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 100% | SARCASTIC (2) | Should Always Remain Calm - Anything Said's Tongue-In-Cheek. |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 100% | SARCASTIC (3) | Saying A Rude, Cutting And Silly Thing, In 'Comedy' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| 100% | SHARP | Something Honed And/or Remarkably Pointed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | SICKENING | Stomach Is Churning Keep Emetic Nonsense Internalised - (it's) Nasty & Graphic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SLOWER | Some Lumber Onwards Without Evident Rapidity |
Tony McTrack&Field O'Grady |
| 100% | SOLID (2) | Slug - Or Lump - Is Dense |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SOUND (2) | Sane. Organized. Unagressive. Novel. Dependable! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | SPECIAL | Sounds Pretty Extraordinary. Causes Immediate Attraction Literally |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | SPENT | She Predicts Entry Next Time |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | SQUARE (2) | Sound Questions! Utterly Account! Reveal Everything! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Situation: Congressional Panel investigating competitors' lies. Response of victim: an Honest, Gifted CEO. |
| 100% | SQUARE (3) | Secure Quarters! Unlimited! Advancing! Renewing Employment! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | SUCCINT | Short / Unadorned / Compact Communication! Informative, Not Talkative/Tedious! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Communication |
| 100% | SURE | Small Uncertainties Removed Entirely |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SWISH (3) | Some Wealthy Individual's Stylish Home |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | TIRED (3) | Take Immediate Rest, Enjoy Dreaming |
Angela Brett, inspired by TIRED (2) |
| 100% | TIRED (2) | Time! Immediate Rest! Energise! Delay! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | TIRED | The Instinct's Rest... Eyelids Droop. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | TIPTOP (2) | There Is Perfection To One's Performance |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | TEDIOUS | To Endlessley Do It Often Unceasingly Slowly |
Sean Lamb (who's been typing too many lines of CPPUNIT_ASSERT code lately for unit testing) |
| 100% | TALL | Towering Above Lesser Lumps |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | UBEROUS | Uniquely Bounteous Emissions - Regularly Offering Unending Sustenance |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | UNIFORM (4) | Unquestioning Nonvariance *Is* Fashion... Others Reflect Me! |
Angela Brett, in response to UNIFORM (3) People & Relationships |
| 100% | UNIFORM (5) | Unquestioning Nature... I'll Form Opinions Resembling Master's |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | UNIFORM (6) | Usually Neighbour Isn't Far Off Repeating Myself |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | UNINTERESTING | Underused Neurons Immediately Notice That External Repertoire Excludes Stimulation - This Is Not Good! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | URBAN | Undisputedly, Rural Bumpkins Are Not! |
Angela Brett Places:Towns & Cities |
| 92% | VACANT FACED | Vacuous Appearance Can Announce No Thoughts Flit Around Cranium - (or) Ever Did |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | VALID | Verily, A Logically Inferred Derivation |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | VILE | Very Intensely Loathsome Entity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | VULGAR | Very Unlovely Lacks Gentleness And Refinement |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | WACKY | Weird And Crazed Kooky Youth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 83% | WEIRD | What an Enigmatic, Intriguing, Ridiculous Dream! |
Angela Brett, after having a weird dream involving Tony. |
| 100% | WHINY | Waaah! Help! I Need You! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | WILD | Wondering If Love Died |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | WOOZY | Woman Out Of Zest Yesterday |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | YARE | You Are Really Educable! |
Chin Shih Tang. I saw the word for the first time on the site. Once I looked up the definition, the apronymization came easily. Education |
| 100% | ZONKED | Zapped-Out Noggin Keeping Euphoria Dazzled |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | TWISTED (2) | Turning Will Instill Style, Thus Elaborating Design |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |