Meaning of Liff: WIDDICOMBE to WOOLFARDISHWORTHY
(Liff words collected: 550)
WIDDICOMBE : (n.) The sort of person who impersonates trimphones.
WIGAN : (n.) If, when talking to someone you know has only one leg, you're trying to treat then perfectly casually and normally, but find to your horror that your conversion is liberally studded with references to (a) Long John Silver, (b) Hopalong Cassidy, (c) The Hockey Cokey, (d) 'putting your foot in it', (e) 'the last leg of the UEFA competition', you are said to have committed a wigan. The word is derived from the fact that sub-editors at ITN used to manage to mention the name of either the town Wigan, or Lord Wigg, in every fourth script that Reginald Bosanquet was given to read.
WIKE : (vb.) To rip a piece of sticky plaster off your skin as fast as possible in the hope that it will (a) show how brave you are, and (b) not hurt.
WILLIMANTIC : (adj.) Of a person whose heart is in the wrong place (i.e. between their legs).
WIMBLEDON : (n.) That last drop which, no matter how much you shake it, always goes down your trouser leg.
WINKLEY : (n.) A lost object which turns up immediately you've gone and bought a replacement for it.
WINSTON-SALEM : (n.) A person in a restaurant who suggest to their companions that they should split the cost of the meal equally, and then orders two packets of cigarettes on the bill.
WIVENHOE : (n.) The cry of alacrity with which a sprightly eighty-year-old breaks the ice on the lake when going for a swim on Christmas Eve.
WOKING : (participial vb.) Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for.
WOOLFARDISHWORTHY : (n.) A mumbled, mispronounced or misheard word in a song, speech or play. Derived from the well-known mumbles passage in Hamlet : '...and the spurns, That patient merit of the unworthy ...takes When he himself might his quietus ...make With a bare bodkin? Who ....woolfardisworthy To grunt and sweat under a weary life?'
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