Meaning of Liff: SLOGARIE to SNITTERFIELD
(Liff words collected: 550)
SLOGARIE : (n.) Hillwalking dialect for the seven miles of concealed rough moorland which lie between what you though was the top of the hill and what actually is.
SLUBBERY : (n.) The gooey drips of wax that dribble down the sides of a candle so beloved by Italian restaurants with Chianti bottles instead of wallpaper.
SLUGGAN : (n.) A lurid facial bruise which everyone politely omits to mention because it's obvious that you had a punch-up with your spouse last night - but which was actually caused by walking into a door. It is useless to volunteer the true explanation because nobody will believe it.
SLUMBAY : (n.) The cigarette end someone discovers in the mouthful of lager they have just swigged from a can at the end of party.
SMARDEN : (vb.) To keep your mouth shut by smiling determinedly through you teeth. Smardening is largely used by people trying to give the impression that they're enjoying a story they've heard at least six times before.
SMEARISARY : (n.) The correct name for a junior apprentice greengrocer whose main duty is to arrange the fruit so that the bad side is underneath. From the name of a character not in Dickens.
SNEEM : (n.,vb.) Particular kind of frozen smile bestowed on a small child by a parent in mixed company when the question, 'Mummy, what's this ?' appears to require the answer,' Er...it's a rubber johnny, darling'.
SNITTER : (n.) One of the rather unfunny newspaper clippings pinned to an office wall, the humour of which is supposed to derive from the fact that the headline contains a name similar to that of one of the occupants to the office.
SNITTERBY : (n.) Someone who pins snitters (q.v.) on to snitterfields (q.v.) and is also suspected of being responsible for the extinction of virginstows (q.v.)
SNITTERFIELD : (n.) Office noticeboard on which snitters (q.v.),cards saying 'You don't have to be mad to work here, but if you are it helps !!!' and slightly smutty postcards from Ibiza get pinned up by snitterbies (q.v.)
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