Thursday, May 31, 2007
Bricole
A bricole is actually a sporting term. It's a shot in billiards where the ball rebounds off the cushion and has a similar meaning in tennis. It's also an ancient military catapult. Fascinating, but I have to say the invented meanings are even more interesting - and we all loved the meaning created by Judi, today's winner on the poll. Well done Judi.
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a miniscule version of the charcoal briquette, used for heating meals for fairies and little people.
A bricole is an instument used for hurling bricks into the hole that has been dug for the foundation of a home or building. It is a more sophisticated -- and practical -- version of the catipult.
Bricole is a decadent, malt-derived dessert topping, typically drizzled hot over poached pears with vanilla ice cream.
Yummmnnn.
Bricole is a hop-scotching dance done in Mongolia by school children on the holiday "Bricolden Day," which commemmorates the invention of the rik-shaw.
To Wordimperfect: the voting for chitterling isn't counting my vote today for some reason.
Bricole is an OTC medicine used for bronchitis to clear out the air ways in the lungs.
In Southern Italy the "Bricole'" [bree-coe-lay]is an ancient folk dance practiced by the townspeople of Brindisi in times of old. After the War of Unification in 1861, the joyous peasants danced the Bricole' with great abandon & verve for their new king, Victor Emmanuel. The straitlaced Victor, from colder climes to the north, found the happy girations and symbolic costumes of the dancing locals so shocking & embarrasing that he forbade the public performance of the Brincole' from that time forward. The obedient
dancers (known locally as Bricodesiacs) placed their elaborate costumes, lavishly and colorfully embroidered with fertility symbols, away in their trunks & cupboards.
These costumes are highly sought after by specialized collectors and fetch very high prices.
A bricole is a fern-like vegetable, rust or brick coloured, that is a cousin to Canada's fiddlehead vegetable. Children cry when served them.
Bricole is the state of mind one finds themself in after vomitting all night because of the flu. When one is in bricole they stare blankly at the tv with their head spinning and their eyes glazed over. In bricole, one often craves 7-Up, and toast with cinnamon and sugar.
First we had Beniffer (Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, then we had Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) now we have Bricole! The most unlikely pairing of Brittany Speirs and Nicole Ritchie...yes folks, you heard it here first Brittany and Nicole have come out of the closet and are starting their first round of Rehab together this weekend!
A bricole is French, and means bread that has been baked into a brick shape.
French verb: bricoler=as a non specialist you intend to mend or repair or build something without great expectation of impressing other people but the outcome can still be useful.(Sorry for joyning in late, but this is no invention of mine, it really is French.)
A Bricole is the close cousin broccoli. Although the word is near broccoli, it has a completely different taste. A delicous add-on to any meal without broccoli, as the broccoli will be envious that all humans feed on the bricole.
It is an affectionate term used by die-hard fans to refer to that thing Nicole lays in her john...
:p
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