Uxbridge English Dictionary

[Bank Foot AM]

The mention of Camouflage reminded me of this:
Les Barker Camouflage Net

Thanks, that's brilliant. I really need to aquaint myself with more of the late Mr Barker's work.

 

[xotGD]

Penultimate - The perfect writing implement.

 

[Bank Foot AM]

Prose - Professional participants in an activity.

 

[Purple Train]

Refute - transport for an Australian soccer official.

 

[Bank Foot AM]

Trousers - Natives of Trowse (q.v. Troosers, Donald 1960).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taxidermist...Hackney carriage driver with a skin problem.

 

[Bank Foot AM]

Export - to drink too much fortified wine.

Export - A Geordie who really knows his subject.

Export - Disused harbour.

Exporting - Jamaican disused harbour.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Incubus - The brand name of Stagecoach's mobile tattoo service.

Incubate - a lure used for catching squid.

 

[PG]

Signify - a sign that doesn't look quite right.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Entropy - having an infection in ear nose and throat.

 

[Bank Foot AM]

Doughty - Feeling uncertain.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Temazepam ... Something under the icing on Yorkshire Christmas cakes.

 

[Harpo]

I see that Shampoo (a fake No 2) has already been floated here so, at the risk of getting the sac, offer Shambolic.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Austere - what you get when Australia lose

 

[High Dyke]

Bunion - an onion flavoured bread roll.

 

[PG]

Intuition - reporting the current status of a student.

 

[Bank Foot AM]

Holderness - The quality of being Noddy (the Slade one, not the Toyland version).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stalagmite ... Insect in a German prisoner-of-war camp.

 

[PG]

Substance - How you remain upright in a submarine.

 

[Bank Foot AM]

Unctuous - Feeling unease in the company of one's niece or nephew.

 

[PG]

Contractor - Agricultural machine used by prisioners.

 

[johnnychips]

Cushion - a subatomic particle on the edge of a snooker table

 

[High Dyke]

Converse - prose about prisoners

 

[Purple Train]

Perspicacious - like a rather sweaty tree

 

[Bank Foot AM]

Uncanny - Unlike a can.

 

[Bank Foot AM]

Halloween - What I said to Ian this morning.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Promulgate - being in favour of thinking about field entrance barriers

 

[xotGD]

Banshee - Part of a campaign to outlaw the use of gendered pronouns.

 

[PG]

Avanti - Courier explaining where they had their last hot beverage and what it was.

 

[Bank Foot AM]

Interpolate - The arrival of the international criminal investigators was delayed.