Meaning of Liff: DRAFFAN to DUNBOYNE
(Liff words collected: 550)
DRAFFAN : (n.) An infuriating person who always manages to look much more dashing that anyone else by turning up unshaven and hungover at a formal party.
DREBLEY : (n.) Name for a shop which is supposed to be witty but is in fact wearisome, e.g. 'The Frock Exchange', 'Hair Apparent', etc.
DROITWICH : (n.) A street dance. The two partners approach from opposite directions and try politely to get out of each other's way. They step to the left, step to the right, apologise, step to the left again, apologise again, bump into each other and repeat as often as unnecessary.
DUBUQUE : (n.) A look given by a superior person to someone who has arrived wearing the wrong sort of shoes.
DUDOO : (n.) The most deformed potato in any given collection of potatoes.
DUGGLEBY : (n.) The person in front of you in the supermarket queue who has just unloaded a bulging trolley on to the conveyor belt and is now in the process of trying to work out which pocket they left their cheque book in, and indeed which pair of trousers.
DULEEK : (n.) Sudden realisation, as you lie in bed waiting for the alarm to go off, that it should have gone off an hour ago.
DULUTH : (adj.) The smell of a taxi out of which people have just got.
DUNBAR : (n.) A highly specialised fiscal term used solely by turnstile operatives at Regent's Park zoo. It refers to the variable amount of increase in the variable gate takings on a Sunday afternoon, caused by persons going to the zoo because they are in love and believe that the feeling of romance will be somehow enhanced by the smell of panther sweat and rank incontinence in the reptile house.
DUNBOYNE : (n.) The moment of realisation that the train you have just patiently watched pulling out of the station was the one you were meant to be on.
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