Meaning of Liff: TOLSTACHAOLAIS to TUAMGRANEY
(Liff words collected: 550)
TOLSTACHAOLAIS : (phr.) What the police in Leith require you to say in order to prove that you are not drunk.
TOOTING BEC : (n.) A car behind which one draws up at the traffic lights and hoots at when the lights go green before realising that the car is parked and there is no one inside.
TORLUNDY : (n.) Narrow but thickly grimed strip of floor between the fridge and the sink unit in >the kitchen of a rented flat.
TORONTO : (n.) Generic term for anything which comes out of a gush despite all your careful efforts to let it out gently, e.g. flour into a white sauce, tomato ketchup on to fried fish, sperm into a human being, etc.
TOTTERIDGE : (n.) The ridiculous two-inch hunch that people adopt when arriving late for the theatre in the vain and futile hope that it will minimise either the embarrassment of the lack of visibility for the rest of the audience. c.f. hickling.
TRANTLEMORE : (vb.) To make a noise like a train crossing a set of points.
TREWOFFE : (n.) A very thick and heavy drift of snow balanced precariously on the edge of a door porch waiting for what it judges to be the correct moment to fall. From the ancient Greek legend 'The Treewofe of Damocles'.
TRISPEN : (n.) A form of intelligent grass. It grows a single, tough stalk and makes its home on lawns. When it sees the lawnmower coming it lies down and pops up again after it has gone by.
TROSSACHS : (pl.n.) The useless epaulettes on an expensive raincoat.
TUAMGRANEY : (n.) A hideous wooden ornament that people hang over the mantelpiece to prove they've been to Africa.
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