A Propos Restriction On 'Nyms, You Maintain Semantics.
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| G4 | Grasping 4 |
Hyper Unit Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| GA | Gurgling Annoyance |
Jeff Anonymous (in reference to the baby noise) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| GAB | Grumble, Argue, Bicker |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication:Talking |
| GABBLE | Garbage Articulated, 'Blah Blah...' Lacking Eloquence. |
Angela Brett, not long before checking her email and discovering she'd been beaten to first G acronym by Tony's GAB. Communication:Talking |
| GABBY | Girl Always Babbling By You |
Rico Leffanta Names:First names:Female |
| GADGET | Got Ample Dough? Get Electronic Toys. |
Angela Brett Science:Electronics |
| GAG | Government Approved Giggle |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Laughter |
| GAIL | Girl Always In Love |
Rico Leffanta Names:First names:Female |
| GALATIANS | Gazing Astrologers Listened, Awed, To Itinerant Apostle. Now Saved. |
Sue Johnson Religion:Bible books |
| GALLEONS | Great Armada Lost Lives Entering One Nasty Storm |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (The Spanish Armada was defeated as much by the weather as by the British Navy) Transport History |
| GAM | Green And Mauve |
Angela Brett ('gam' is the collective noun for weasels, and the story which the h2g2 researchers are writing at http://www.h2g2.com/A255007 is plagued with mauve and sometimes green weasels.) Art & Literature |
| GAMBLE | Gain A Million By Losing Empire |
Angela Brett Entertainment |
| GAMBLING | Gaming And Much Bet Laying - Income Newly Generated |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment |
| GAME | Generally About Mass Entertainment |
Gavin Lambert, thinking mainly about sports games and the like rather than board games, but you could extend the parallel... Sports & Recreation Entertainment:Games |
| GAMER | Gathers Around Machines - Evading Reality |
Tony McCoy O'Gameboy Computers:Games |
| GAMMA | Greek Authors Mastered Minimalist Alphabet |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, commenting that there are only 24 characters in the Greek alphabet Science:Linguistics |
| GAMUTS | Girls Appraise Men Under The Sheets |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| GANDALF | Great Advisor Negates Death And Looses Fireworks |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| GANDER | Giving A Nudge Dames Excitedly Reject |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| GANT | Guess About Nebulous Timescales |
Jonathan Staniford (see GANTT) Time |
| GANTT | Graph Allocating Necessary Tasks & Timescales |
Angela Brett, after a workmate mistakenly referred to a Gantt chart as a 'GANT'. The Gantt chart is named after Charles Gantt, and is not an acronym. Time |
| GANZ | Glossary: "All", Not Zero |
Grace Francis Science:Linguistics:German Words |
| GAOL | Girls Are Only Lads |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Law & Order Places:Buildings |
| GAP | Gear's Awfully Pricey |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing |
| GARDEN | Gives All, Rainbow Delights, Entreats Natives |
Jan Morgan Places |
| GARDENS | Grass And Rosebeds Delight Everybody's Natural Senses |
TMcCO'G Places Science:Biology:Plants |
| GARFIELD | Gifted (Albeit Rotund) Feline, I Eat Lasagne Daily |
TMcCO'G Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Names:Pet Names |
| GARLAND | Green And Red Leaves Are Nicely Decorative |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Plants |
| GARLIC | Garnish - A Renowned Love Inhibiting Condiment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| GARMENTS | Girls Adorn Runways, Modelling Elegant New Tweed Suits |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing |
| GARRETT | Gaelic - Attention Riveted Regarding Everything That's There |
Angela Brett (the name Garrett comes from Gaelic and means 'To Watch') Names:First names:Male |
| GARRULOUS | Gabbing About Random Rubbish, Usually Lots Of Useless Subjects |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GARY | Guy's Always Reinterrogating You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Male |
| GAS | Generally Asphyxiating Substance |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry |
| GASBAG | Groan... Another Speech By Al Gore. |
Angela Brett Politics |
| GATE | Grants Access To Everyone |
Angela Brett Places |
| GAUDY | Garish And Unusually Decadent - Yuck! |
Melanie Merswolke Assorted Adjectives |
| GAUSS | Got Answers Using Simultaneous Solutions |
Angela Brett, thinking of Gaussian elimination, a way of solving simultaneous equations. I didn't feel like acronymising the whole thing! Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| GAVIN | Good At Very Interesting 'Nyms |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Acronymists |
| GAWAIN | Grail Adventurer, Was Arthur's Ideal Nephew. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Arthurian Legend |
| GAY | Got Aids Yet? |
mark a.k.a. (dad) People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA Science:Biology:Healthcare |
| GAYS | Genes Alter Your Sexuality? |
Angela Brett Science:Biology People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| GEEK | Gathers Esoteric, Encyclopaedic Knowledge |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEKY | Go Electronic - Everyone Knows You |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEMINI | Gypsies Earn Money In Nonsense Industry |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Astrology |
| GENEALOGY | Generations Evoke New Excitement And Love Of Genealogy Yearnings |
Jan Morgan - Genealogy is the study of our heritage and finding our ancestors People & Relationships:Family |
| GENERAL | Generally Evinces Nothing Exceptional - Rarely A Livewire |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military:Ranks |
| GENERIC | Generalised Extremely, Not Explicit... Really Inspecific Codswallop. |
Angela Brett, when Bern complained that her HERNIA was too generic. See also: INSPECIFIC Assorted Adjectives |
| GENESIS | Generating Everything, Nothing Excepted, Seventh Is Sabbath. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Bible books |
| GENGAR | Grimy Even Nauseating Ghoul Also Repulsive. |
Nevica the MAN. (Gengar is a purple, ugly, ghost pokemon #94) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| GENTS | Great Emergency - Need To Sh*t |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| GENUIS | Geeks Enabling Nottingham University's Information Systems |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see UNITS) Education:University of Nottingham School of Community Health Sciences IT Subgroup |
| GEOLOGY | Geology Encapsulates One's Learning Of Gneiss Yields |
Sean Lamb Science:Geology |
| GEOMETRY | Golly, Elementary Orthogonal Matrices Excite These Randy Youths. |
Angela Brett, during a boring first-year algebra lecture. Science:Mathematics:Geometry Education:Slow Teaching |
| GEORGE | Gentleman, Eating Out, Rarely Gets Eel. |
Patricia Rix, describing her husband Names:Acronymists |
| GEORGIA | Gradually Eased Off Russia's Grip Into Autonomy. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| GERADE | Genuine Expression Reaffirming Apparent Dubious Exactness |
Grace Francis Science:Linguistics:German Words |
| GERAINT | Gentle Errant Romantic, Arthurian Individual, Noble Traveller |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Arthurian Legend |
| GERALD | Gets Enchanted, Reading A Little Drama |
Jan Morgan Names:First names:Male |
| GERMANY | Greeted Eventual Reunification Magnificently After Numerous Years. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| GERTRUDE | Generates Enmity Realizing The Rogue Uncle's Despotic Ends |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark |
| GESTALT | Generality Exceeds (Somehow) The Analytically Logical Total |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science |
| GESTAPO | Ghastly Excess Shown To A People Overrun. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| GETTYSBURG | Gained Edge To Triumph Yesterday's Situation/Slavery, Battled Union's Resolute Goal |
Jan Morgan Places:Towns & Cities History |
| GFOUR | Gigaflops For Ordinary Users - Revolutionary! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| GHOST | Ghoul Heckling Our Sleep Time |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Death |
| GHOULS | Give Hundreds Of Undead Life, Symbolically |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| GIFT | Given In Friendly Transaction |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| GIGABYTES | Gosh, Information Galore! And Building Yearly... Terabytes Emerging Soon. |
Angela Brett Computers |
| GIGGLE | Greatly Inspired Gleeful Guffaw... Laughing Ebulliantly |
Angela Brett Laughter |
| GIMLI | Grotty Inbred Man (Little Incomplete) |
Carl Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| GIMP | Gait Isn't Mighty Pretty |
Tony McCoy O'Hyphen Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| GIN | Great, If Neat! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| GINGER | Giving Individual Negotiates Great Encouragement Really |
Jan Morgan Names:First names:Female |
| GINSENG | Generally Its Nice, Sexually Enhances Naughty Geriatrics |
Tony Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| GIRAFFE | Gigantic, If Ridiculous, Animal Feeds From Elevation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| GIRL | Generally I Rather Like'm |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, obviously speaking for KEYBOARD as well. ;^) People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| GIRLS | Giggly Items, Require Loving Sometimes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| GIUSEPPE | Goes In Usual Steps, Eventually Pacing People's Enjoyment |
Jan Morgan Names:First names:Male |
| GIVE | Gift Is Vicariously Enjoyed |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
| GLADIATOR | Gory Life And Death In Arenae - Tale Of Rome |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Movies |
| GLADYS | Gorgeous Lady Adores Doing You Soon! |
Rico Leffanta Names:First names:Female |
| GLANS | Genital Lingo Associated Naughty Sexuality |
Kenny Roy Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| GLASS | Glossy 'Lucent Article, Secures Sustenance. |
Gavin Lambert ('lucent as in 'translucent') Household Objects:Eating Utensils |
| GLASSEL | Good-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. Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| GLASSES | Good-Looking Angela Sees Smallprint Extra Sharply. |
Angela Brett, who has perfect close-up sight. Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| GLENDOWER | Generally Legendary. Evinces No Deeds Of Wonder - Essentially Ranting! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry IV Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:King Henry IV |
| GLITCH | Good Lord! Imperfect Timing Causes Havoc! |
Angela Brett, after hearing about how delays in electricity flowing through logic gates can cause glitches in electronic circuits. Science:Electronics |
| GLOBAL | Green Lives Oblige Being Active Locally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (A slogan of the Green Party is 'Think Globally, Act Locally') Politics |
| GLORY | God's Love Often Revives You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| GLOSS | Gain Little Off Shiny Surface |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who, after reading PAINT, said 'Now, I'm all in favour of warning people of things which are inedible but I am unconvinced that paint (in all its guises) is inedible so, on the assumption that either it is bad for one, or good for one, I've devised a dual system of acronyms....' Food & Drink:Home(-cooked) Improvement:Paint |
| GLOUCESTER | Great Lord's Obsequies Unleash Civil Enmity & Strife That Engulf Realm |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Shakespeare's King Henry VI Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:King Henry VI |
| GM | Garbage Motors |
Rob s Re-expansions of existing acronyms Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| GNAT | Grand Natural After Taste |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology:Insects:Edible(?) |
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