Meaning of Liff: GOOLE to GRINSTEAD
(Liff words collected: 550)
GOOLE : (n.) The puddle on the bar into which the barman puts your change.
GOOSECRUIVES : (pl. n. archaic) A pair of wooden trousers worn by poultry-keepers in the Middle Ages.
GOOSNARGH : (n.) Something left over from preparing or eating a meal, which you store in the fridge despite the fact that you know full well you will never ever use it.
GREAT TOSSON : (n.) A fat book containing four words and six cartoons which cost รบ6.95.
GREAT WAKERING : (participial vb.) Panic which sets in when you badly need to go to the lavatory and cannot make up your mind about what book or magazine to take with you.
GREELEY : (n.) Someone who continually annoys you by continually apologising for annoying you.
GRETNA GREEN : (adj.) A shade of green which makes you wish you'd painted whatever it was a different colour.
GRIMMET : (n.) A small bush from which cartoon characters dangle over the edge of a cliff.
GRIMSBY : (n.) A lump of something gristly and foul tasting concealed in a mouthful of stew or pie. Grimsbies are sometimes merely the result of careless cookery, but more often they are placed there deliberately by Freemasons. Grimsbies can be purchased in bulk from any respectable Masonic butcher on giving him the secret Masonic handbag. One is then placed in a guests food to see if he knows the correct masonic method of dealing with it. If the guest is not a Mason, the host may find it entertaining to watch how he handles the obnoxious object. It may be (a) manfully swallowed, invariably bringing tears to the eyes, (b) chewed with resolution for up to twenty minutes before eventually resorting to method (a), (c) choked on fatally. The Masonic handshake is easily recognised by another Mason incidentally, for by it a used grimsby is passed from hand to hand. The secret Masonic method for dealing with a grimsby is as follows : remove it carefully with the silver tongs provided, using the left hand. Cross the room to y
GRINSTEAD : (n.) The state of a lady's clothing after she has been to powder her nose and has hitched up her tights over her skirt at the back, thus exposing her bottom, and has walked out without noticing it.
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