Meaning of Liff: HICKLING to HORTON-CUM-STUDLEY
(Liff words collected: 550)
HICKLING : (participial vb.) The practice of infuriating theatregoers by not only arriving late to a centre-row seat, but also loudly apologising to and patting each member of the audience in turn.
HIDCOTE BARTRAM : (n.) To be caught in a hidcote bartram is to say a series of protracted and final goodbyes to a group of people, leave the house and then realise you've left your hat behind.
HIGH LIMERIGG : (n.) The topmost tread of a staircase which disappears when you've climbing the stairs in the darkness.
HIGH OFFLEY : (n.) Gossnargh (q.v.) three weeks later.
HOBBS CROSS : (n.) The awkward leaping manoeuvre a girl has to go through in bed in order to make him sleep on the wet patch.
HODDLESDEN : (n.) An 'injured' footballer's limb back into the game which draws applause but doesn't fool anybody.
HODNET : (n.) The wooden safety platform supported by scaffolding round a building under construction from which the builders (at almost no personal risk) can drop pieces of cement on passers-by.
HOFF : (vb.) To deny indignantly something which is palpably true.
HOGGESTON : (n.) The action of overshaking a pair of dice in a cup in the mistaken belief that this will affect the eventual outcome in your favour and not irritate everyone else.
HORTON-CUM-STUDLEY : (n.) The combination of little helpful grunts, nodding movements of the head, considerate smiles, upward frowns and serious pauses that a group of people join in making in trying to elicit the next pronouncement of somebody with a dreadful stutter.
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