Meaning of Liff: BLITHBURY to BOTCHERBY
(Liff words collected: 550)
BLITHBURY : (n.) A look someone gives you by which you become aware that they're much too drunk to have understood anything you've said to them in the last twenty minutes.
BLITTERLESS : (pl. n.) The little slivers of bamboo picked off a cane chair by a nervous guest which litter the carpet beneath and tell the chair's owner that the whole piece of furniture is about to uncoil terribly and slowly until it resembles a giant pencil sharpening.
BODMIN : (n.) The irrational and inevitable discrepancy between the amount pooled and the amount needed when a large group of people try to pay a bill together after a meal.
BOLSOVER : (n.) One of those brown plastic trays with bumps on, placed upside down in boxes of chocolates to make you think you're-getting two layers.
BONKLE : (n.) Of plumbing in old hotels, to make loud and unexplained noises in the night, particularly at about five o'clock in the morning.
BOOLTEENS : (pl. n.) The small scatterings of foreign coins and half-p's which inhabit dressing tables. Since they are never used and never thrown away boolteens account for a significant drain on the world's money supply.
BOOTHBY GRAFFOE : (n.) 1. The man in the pub who slaps people on the back as if they were old friends, when in fact he has no friends, largely on account of this habit. 2. Any story told by Robert Morley on chat shows.
BOSCASTLE : (n.) A huge pyramid of tin cans placed just inside the entrance to a supermarket.
BOSEMAN : (n.) One who spends all day loafing about near pedestrian crossing looking as if he's about to cross.
BOTCHERBY : (n.) The principle by which British roads are signposted.
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