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Place names given meaning in Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's 'Meaning of Liff' books.
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100% AASLEAGHAwful Alcohol's Still Left, & Everyone's Already Got Hangovers! Angela Brett (Aasleagh is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A liqueur made only for drinking at the end of a revoltingly long bottle party when all the drinkable drink has been drunk.'
Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic
100% AFFCOTA Frightful Fart Cuts Off Talking. Angela Brett (Affcot is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'The sort of fart you hope people will talk after.')
100% BOTUSFLEMINGBefore Operation The Urbane Surgeon Feels Like Extracting Mucus (Including Nasal Gloop) Tony McCoy O'Grady (Botusfleming is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A small, long-handled steel trowel used by surgeons to remove the contents of a patient's nostrils prior to a sinus operation.')
100% CLATHYClutching Lightbulb Anxiously, Thinking, "Here? Yonder?" Angela Brett (Clathy is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'Nervously indecisive about how to dispose of a dead lightbulb.'
100% DUNTISHDon't Undertake Numeracy Tests If Severely Hungover Tony McCoy O'Grady (Duntish is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'Mentally incapacitated by severe hangover.')
Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic
86% FEAKLEFacial Expression Akin-to Kiddie-Leering Elder's Tony McCoy O'Grady (Feakle is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'To make facial expressions similar to those that old gentlemen make to young girls in the playground.')
100% FRANTFellows Restlessly Await Next Train Angela Brett (Frant is defined in The Meaning of Liff as meaning, 'The legal minimum distance between two trains on the District and Circle line of the London Underground. A frant, which must be not less than 122 chains (or 8 leagues) long, is not connected in any way with the adjective 'frantic' which comes to us by a completely different route (as indeed do the trains).')
100% FRINGFilament's Rattled - It's Not Glowing Tony McCoy O'Grady (Fring is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'The noise made by light bulb which has just shone its last.')
Assorted Nouns:Noises
100% FROSSESFolks Really Organise Stupid Stuff, Eh Sista? Angela Brett (Frosses is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'The lecherous looks exchanged between sixteen-year-olds at a party given by someone's parents')
100% FROSSES (2)Folks Really Organise Such Stupid Events... Seeya! Angela Brett (see FROSSES)
100% GLASSELGood-Looking At Sea Side, Elsewhere Lacklustre. Angela Brett ('Glassel' is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, which children nevertheless insist on filing their suitcases with after the holiday.
100% HASSOPHere Armchair Stores Sterling Or Plastic Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady (Hassop is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'The pocket down the back of an armchair used for storing two-shilling bits and pieces of Lego.'
100% HASTINGSHardly Anything Suspicious - The... Icing Needed Glazing, See? Angela Brett (Hastings is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Things said on the spur of the moment to explain to someone who comes into a room unexpectedly precisely what it is you are doing.')
100% HOFFHaughty Outrage Feints Falsehood Tony McCoy O'Grady (Hoff is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning 'To deny indignantly something which is palpably true.')
100% JARROWJactate Across Rural Road's Overall Width Tony McCoy O'Grady (Jarrow is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'An agricultural device which, when towed behind a tractor, enables the farmer to spread his dung evenly across the width of the road.')
100% KALAMIKorean (?) Artistry Leaves A Map Immaculate Tony McCoy O'Grady (Kalami is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'The ancient Eastern art of being able to fold road-maps properly.')
100% LIFFLook Inside For Facts Angela Brett - Liff is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A book, the contents of which are totally belied by its cover...'
100% LIFFLESSLacking In Funny & Frivolous Literature, Erase Smile Signs Tony McCoy O'Grady, because he doesn't have a copy of 'The Meaning of Liff' or 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff'
100% LLANELLILimp-Limbed After Natation - Essay Loosening Liquid Involuntarily Tony McCoy O'Grady (Llanelli is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'Descriptive of the waggling movement of a person's hands when shaking water from them or warming up for a piece of workshop theatre.')
100% LUDLOWLeg's Unstable? Deploy Lump Or Wad Tony McCoy O'Grady (Ludlow is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'A wad of newspaper, folded tablenapkin or lump of carboard put under a wobbly table or chair to make it stand up straight. It is perhaps not widely known that air-ace Sir Douglas Bader used to get about on an enormous pair of ludlows before he had his artificial legs fitted.')
100% LUTONLavatory's Upholstered To One's Needs Tony McCoy O'Grady (Luton is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning 'The horseshoe-shaped rug which goes around a lavatory seat.')
100% MEATHOPMeet Each Aircraft Tragedy & Have Obscene Picnic Tony McCoy O'Grady (Meathop is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'One who sets off for the scene of an aircraft crash with a picnic hamper.')
100% NAASNoxious Albanian Alcohol's Source Tony McCoy O'Grady (Naas is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'The winemaking region of Albania where most of the wine that people take to bottle-parties comes from.')
100% NACTIONNot And, 'Cause Truly It's Only N Angela Brett (Naction is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'The 'n' with which cheap advertising copywriters replace the word 'and' (as in 'fish 'n' chips', 'mix 'n' match', 'assault 'n' battery'), in the mistaken belief that this is in some way chummy or endearing.
100% NYBSTERNot You, But Short-Trip-Elevator-Rider Tony McCoy O'Grady (Nybster is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Sort of person who takes the lift to travel one floor.')
100% OSBASTONOne Should Beware A Seven-Times-Over Nincompoop Tony McCoy O'Grady (Osbaston is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'A point made for the seventh time to somebody who insisits that they know exactly what you mean but clearly hasn't got the faintest idea.')
100% OSSETTOrnate Spare Secretes Extra Toilet Tissue Tony McCoy O'Grady (Ossett is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'A frilly spare-toilet-roll-cosy.')
Household Objects
100% PITSLIGOPeople In Tube Straphang - 'Look, I'm Gently Oozing!' Tony McCoy O'Grady (Pitsligo is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Part of traditional mating rite. During the first hot day of spring, all the men in the tube start giving up their seats to ladies and staphanging. The purpose of pitsligo is for them to demonstrate their manhood by displaying the wet patches under their arms.')
100% PLEELEYPickled Lush's Elaborately Endeavours Looking Endearing - Yuk! Tony McCoy O'Grady (Pleeley is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'Descriptive of a drunk person's attempt to be endearing.')
100% POPCASTLEPiece Of Precocious Child's Artwork - Say "That Looks Excellent!" Tony McCoy O'Grady (Popcastle is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Something drawn or modelled by a small child which you are supposed to know wait it is.')
100% RIPONReview Is Plagiarism Of Novel Angela Brett (Ripon is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, '(Of literary critics.) To include all the best jokes from the book in the review to make it look as if the critic thought of them.'
90% SCAMBLEBYSmall Canine Appears Mat-like By Looking Extinct Beside You Tony McCoy O'Grady (Scambleby is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'A small dog which resembles a throwrug and appears to be dead.')
Science:Biology:Animals
100% SCORRIERSnuffling Canine - Often Revolting - Rootles In Embarrassing Regions Tony McCoy O'Grady (Scorrier is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'A small hunting dog trained to snuffle amongst your private parts.')
Science:Biology:Animals
100% SCRAMOGESmall Cut Received After Mishap On Gummed Envelope Tony McCoy O'Grady (Scramoge is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'To cut oneself whilst licking envelopes.')
80% SCREGGANSmall Criss-crossed Region Erroneously Generated - Generally After New-year Tony McCoy O'Grady (Screggan is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'The crossed-out bit caused by people putting the wrong year on their cheques all through January.')
Commerce
100% SIMPRIMSkirt Is Modestly Pulling Reveals (Immodestly) Mammaries Tony McCoy O'Grady (Simprim is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'The little movement of false modesty by which a girl with a cavernous visible cleavage pulls her skirt down over her knees.')
100% SNITTERSmall Newspaper Item Twit Thought Exceptionally Ribald Tony McCoy O'Grady (Snitter is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'One of the rather unfunny newspaper clippings pinned to an office wall, the humour of which is supposed to derive from the fact that the headline
100% WYOMINGWhen You Obviously Moan In Nerdy Gallop. Jeff Anonymous (Wyoming is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Moving in hurried desperation from one cubicle to another in a public lavatory trying to find one which has a lock on the door, a seat on the bowl, and no brown streaks on the seat.')