Meaning of Liff: DIDLING to DORRIDGE
(Liff words collected: 550)
DIDLING : (participial vb.) The process of trying to work out who did it when reading a whodunit, and trying to keep your options open so that when you find out you can allow yourself to think that you knew perfectly well who it was all along.
DILLYTOP : (n.) The kind of bath plug which for some unaccountable reason is actually designed to sit on top of the hole rather than fit into it.
DITHERINGTON : (n) Sudden access to panic experienced by one who realises that he is being drawn inexorably into a clabby (q.v.) conversation, i.e. one he has no hope of enjoying, benefiting from or understanding.
DITTISHAM : (n.) Any music you hear on the radio to which you have to listen very carefully to determine whether it is an advertising jingle or a bona fide record.
DOBWALLS : (pl.n.) The now hard-boiled bits of nastiness which have to be prised off crockery by hand after it has been through a dishwasher.
DOCKERY : (n.) Facetious behaviour adopted by an accused man in the mistaken belief that this will endear him to the judge.
DOGDYKE : (vb.) Of dog-owners, to adopt the absurd pretence that the animal shitting in the gutter is nothing to do with them.
DOLEGELLAU : (n.) The clump, or cluster, of bored, quietly enraged, mildly embarrassed men waiting for their wives to come out of a changing room in a dress shop.
DORCHESTER : (n.) A throaty cough by someone else so timed as to obscure the crucial part of the rather amusing remark you've just made.
DORRIDGE : (n.) Technical term for one of the lame excuses written in very small print on the side of packets of food or washing powder to explain why there's hardly anything inside. Examples include 'Contents may have settled in transit' and 'To keep each biscuit fresh they have been individually wrapped in silver paper and cellophane and separated with corrugated lining, a cardboard flap, and heavy industrial tyres'.
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