- extrusionate: meaning, to extrude.
- orientate: meaning, to orientate.
- lurt: meaning, as in a-lurt, where lurt is a rare avian species that goes around looking sleepy.
- marginal costs must equal marginal revenue: meaning, or else. All-purpose solution to all problems.
- road trip: borrowed from Animal House, meaning trip to 7-11 for soda and goodies. Usually late at night.
- keeper cup: quality soda cups costing extra which are worth keeping for their special visual effects as opposed to throwaway cheapo plastic cups.
- moron: any other driver on highway who tailgates, cuts off, looks offensive, drives unacceptable-type vehicle, or otherwise should be pulled over by highway patrol and given ticket for just being on highway.
- quality time: time spent together with spouse and family after 11:30 at night after Leno and Letterman when people think it's time to go to bed.
- Jerk: meaning moron. See above.
- WalMart: meaning, punishment for bad behavior. As in, "let's go to WalMart."
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
A Family Vocabulary Lesson
Several unique words are essential for basic communication with one another in our family. Among these words are the following:
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How did egregious get left off of this list?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Courtney! And that was an egregious oversight by the original poster!!
ReplyDeleteAgreed. "GPU" is also missing.
ReplyDeleteIt is also important to get the correct pronunciations; e.g, moron is also often pronounced mo-ron. Mercy.
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